Jeju Global Education City--A Progress Report

For some years now, the increased flow of Korean K-12 students overseas for "early study abroad" has been a policy concern here in South Korea.   One response to this phenomenon has been to encourage the establishment of international schools in Korea, that offer an English-language curriculum.   As reported recently in the Korea Joongang Daily, the new Jeju Global Education City in Seogwipo is perhaps the leading example of this new approach.
As reported in the article, Toronto-based Branksome Hall is set to open in Jeju in October - its first overseas campus that has been some three years in the making. The North London Collegiate School Jeju (NLCS Jeju) opened its 104,358-square-meter (26-acre) campus last September. (click on the accompanying photo to see a larger version)
An increasing number of Korean parents are showing interest in what the Jeju Global Education City has to offer, as some two hundred parents showed up for the first school exposition, hosted by representatives from the two schools, held at the COEX Intercontinental Hotel in southern Seoul in late March.
The Korea Joongang Daily article also reported that "Some 40 percent of NLCS students go on to Ivy League colleges, while 93 percent of Branksome Hall students receive university scholarships.
Both schools will incorporate the International Baccalaureate (IB) program. Both schools promise to offer many activities that take advantage of the island’s natural resources.
From kindergarten to the third grade, Branksome Hall Asia is coeducational, and from fourth grade onwards is girls-only, and will mostly resemble a U.S.-based education system, whereas NLCS Jeju resembles the British school system.