Colégio Polilogos () was a South Korean international school in Bom Retiro, São Paulo, Brazil. It was operated by Associação Brasileira de Educação Coreana (ABEC; ) and was the largest Korean international day school in South America. It was recognized by the South Korean government and was bilingual in Korean and Portuguese.Chi, Jungyun. "O bom retiro dos coreanos: descrição de um enclave étnico." Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism, University of São Paulo, 2016. p. 172 (PDF p. 88/124). "[...]e do Colégio Polilogos, um colégio bilingue cujo ensino é reconhecido pelo governo coreano." - Available on Academia.edu.
Construction started around 1996. It opened in 1998.Chi, Jungyun. "O bom retiro dos coreanos: descrição de um enclave étnico." Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism, University of São Paulo, 2016. p. 176 (PDF p. 90/124). "[...]inauguração do Colégio Polilogos na Rua Solon, Bom Reitor, no ano de 1998,[...]" - Available on Academia.edu. The Ministry of Education (South Korea) helped pay for the establishment of the school, which took 3.5 billion won of ministry funding and donations and another 3.5 billion won of investments. At some point it was not registered as a nonprofit organization in Brazil, so taxes began to decimate the school in a three-year period. It closed in 2017.
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