Shanghai Korean School aims to impart a sense of belonging and potential through the promotion of emotional development and critical thinking, with a sound grounding in what it means to be an international citizen and South Korean in an increasingly globalized world. SKS promotes the Korean Ministry of Education’s tenants of “improving basic abilities; skills and attitudes; developing language ability and civic morality needed to live in society; to increase the spirit of cooperation; to foster basic arithmetic skills and scientific observation skills; and to promote the understanding of a healthy life and the harmonious development of body and mind.