HOUSES
Note: A combination of Ilvermorny houses + MBTI.
Note: A combination of Ilvermorny houses + MBTI.
There are four houses at Yosulgung: Imugi, Samjogo, Holangi and Daltokki. Click through the image below to read about them.
The Student Guidebook is designed to equip students with information about the various aspects of school life as they grow academically, socially, and magically. It includes information regarding school houses, uniforms and ceremonies. Students are expected to be familiar and comply with its contents.
A TYPICAL SCHOOL YEAR
Term begins late August. Students usually reach Yosulgung via the Sky Pillar, but there are other ways of entering the school, such as enchanted airship, Portkey, Floo Powder—or simply Apparating to a nearby location for those that know how.
Start-of-Term Feast The Welcoming Feast takes place in the Main Hall. This feast includes the sorting ceremony, followed by a few words from the Headmaster, who also concludes the ceremony with the usual start-of-term notices.
Holidays
The two-term year is punctuated by holidays at Chuseok and Christmas, and bounded by the long summer holiday. Students are given time off on days such as Seollal and Memorial Day, as well as weekends, but are only allowed to leave the school for home on the holidays listed below. However, students in third year and above may visit Halla, the local town, occasionally.
Late September: Chuseok (Korean Thanksgiving Day)
Mid-December – end of January: Winter vacation
One week in late February: Spring vacation
Mid-July – mid-August: Summer vacation
CURRICULUM
There are four houses at Yosulgung: Imugi, Samjogo, Holangi and Daltokki. Click through the image below to read about them.
The Yosulgung acceptance letter arrives in the form of a scroll, sent to South Korean wizards and witches prior to their first year. A special brush exists, which writes down the name of every magical child in South Korea at the time of their birth. The scroll is secured in a painted octagonal box with a fish lock and delivered to the recipient by drakeling.
SORTING CEREMONY
Note: Directly based on Ilvermorny's sorting ceremony.
When a student starts their education at Yosulgung, they step onto the floor in the center of the Main Hall with large statues of the four houses facing them. The carved statues react if they want the student in their house. The older students watch in silence from a rectangular balcony on a floor above them as the new students are sorted. The carvings react in different ways: the Imugi's eyes glow, the Samjogo carving beats its wings, the Holangi carving roars, and the Daltokki thumps its feet.
Sometimes more than one carving will try to select the same student and so the student is then able to choose the house they prefer. Very rarely—as rare as once a decade or even a generation—a student will be selected by every house.
UNIFORMS
Yosulgung's uniform is characterized by two-toned colors and simple lines. It has evolved over centuries, but in its most basic composition remained true to its roots: the traditional Korean hanbok.
The top portion of the uniform retains the classic look of the jeogori (jacket), with the shape of the collar and the long piece of coat string (goreum) tied in the front. However, this modern rendition has shorter sleeves and goreum, giving it three advantages: it's easier to put on, to move around in, and it's better for warmer months.
Durumagi is the overcoat. That is, the topmost layer of clothing, worn over the jeogori. This type of Durumagi is worn to fend off the cold, but students are instructed to also acquire one for ceremonial purposes.
