Sophie Yoon

New Zealand

BA Degree and Postgraduate Diploma in Secondary teaching, The University of Auckland, New Zealand

Welcome to SSIS Sophie Yoon! She is our new Korean Teacher who was born in South Korea and went to high school in New Zealand. She has been teaching at a high school in Auckland since 2007 and she was a Senior Dean for 3 years. She has also worked for Ministry of Education to build Korean Language Curriculum and National examinations for Korean.

Teaching has always been her passion and she enjoys building positive relationship with students. She is fluent in Korean, English and Japanese. She would like to use her skills to help and support students, parents and the staff at SSIS. 

She enjoys learning new things and visiting different places. This is her first time in Shanghai and one of her personal goals is learning Chinese. She is very excited about starting a new chapter of her life at SSIS.