{"id":129,"date":"2013-08-10T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-08-10T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yule-tide.generalsemiotics.net\/index.php\/2013\/08\/10\/post-122-school-names-in-south-korea-vs-the-usa\/"},"modified":"2013-08-10T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-08-10T00:00:00","slug":"post-122-school-names-in-south-korea-vs-the-usa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yule-tide.blog\/index.php\/2013\/08\/10\/post-122-school-names-in-south-korea-vs-the-usa\/","title":{"rendered":"Post-122: School Names in South Korea vs. The USA"},"content":{"rendered":"
Writing post-121<\/a>, about a Korean high school’s slogan (“Growing Hope and Pleasure”) made me realize something.<\/p>\n

Korean School Names<\/span><\/strong><\/font>
The school’s name in post-121, Jung-Heung [\uc911\ud765], translates as “the Center of Joy” (a name probably mocked regularly by its students). Jung <\/em>means center, and heung <\/em>means “interest, fun, pleasure, joy, amusement…”, according to my dictionary. Korean schools all seem to have names like this. They are either highly abstract, or tied directly to the local <\/em>place. For example, there is a Songnae High School near, believe it or not, Songnae Train Station<\/a>.
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<\/span>\"Picture\"<\/a>George Washington<\/font><\/span><\/span> <\/p>\n

USA School Names<\/strong><\/font>
<\/span>Naming schools after people <\/em>or after <\/span>specific (non-local) places<\/em> of historical of “patriotic” interest is the way schools are named in the USA. At least, that’s true in the part of the USA in which I am most familiar with school names (Northern Virginia). <\/p>\n

<\/span>My home of Arlington, VA has three regular public high schools. The origins of their names:<\/p>\n