[1] It is a part of the Yanbian University of Science and Technology.

[2] YIA opened in 1997 [2] as a quasi-homeschool run by a group of mothers, teaching English and Korean.

Dr. James Wooton became the first headmaster of YIA in the fall of 1998.

When Lee Nichols took over as headmaster in the fall of 2000, the student body had grown to 30.

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