The United Seattle & Bellevue Korean School (USBKS) Bellevue Campus is a weekend Korean heritage school that meets at Tyee Middle School in the Bellevue School District. USBKS was founded in 1996 and operates campuses in both Seattle and Bellevue; combined enrollment exceeds 1,000 students. The Bellevue Campus serves roughly 350 PreK-12 students and is led by Principal Jisuk Jo and Vice Principal Eunyoung Sung.
USBKS is not a standalone day school — it is a supplemental Korean-language and culture program for children who attend U.S. public schools the rest of the week. In that category its peers are other heritage-language schools serving immigrant communities in the Puget Sound area: Korean schools, Chinese-language Saturday schools, Japanese language schools. What distinguishes USBKS is scale and Korean-government recognition: it is one of the largest Korean heritage schools in Washington and is supported by the Korean government as an official overseas Korean school, putting it on a different institutional tier than smaller volunteer-run language programs.
The curriculum is built around Korean-language acquisition (reading, writing, listening, speaking) plus instruction in Korean history and culture, with cultural enrichment electives in Korean music, art, taekwondo, and traditional drumming. The school operates as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit and serves families across King County who want their children to maintain Korean fluency and heritage knowledge alongside their U.S. public-school education — the structural commitment is weekends rather than tuition, and the population it serves is largely first- and second-generation Korean American.
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