Seoul, South Korea, Oct. 20, 1960: Today students get back in the classroom as DODEA schools in both Europe and the Pacific start their 2025-2026 school year.

In this image from 1960, teacher Naomi H. Kim explains a point to members of her seventh grade class at the Seoul Army Dependent School. Kim, a first generation immigrant, has been a teacher in South Korea since September 1960. She was born in Honollulu, Hawaii to North Korean parents who emigrated to Hawaii early in the first decade of the century. Kim’s father, Chi Pum Hong, emigrated from Pyongyang in 1903, and her mother left a village in Hamkyung Province near the Manchurian border in 1906. They joined a community of some 6,000 Koreans scattered throughout Hawaii.

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