Daniel+Joh+Project

=//Economies of Scale// =


 * - Korea International School Phoenix -**


 * - KIS Gaepo Campus (Left)/ Pangyo Campus (Right) -**

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**Teachers**
So... as you can see, Korea International School (KIS) started out very small. Mr. Hadley was the only interviewer at that time. However, he also taught Theater at the old school, as well. Like this kind of situation, KIS used only a small amount of teachers for multi-purposes. When the number of students graduating is only nine students (School of 2006), it is even hard to maintain teachers for each subject.

After KIS moved to the Pangyo Campus, however, things were different. The school was able provide seats to more students. With more students, the school hired more teachers. Now, each teacher had a specific job they focused on, so the school could give less wages to each individual, while increasing the productivity.

**Workers**
For the same reason above, the workers were also specialized. I reckon recently seeing at least 50 workers working at KIS, including bus monitors and janitors. This number is probably several multiples of the previous number of workers at the Gaepo Campus.

**School**
At the Gaepo Campus, K-12 was in //one// building. People would had conflicts when they were getting to school, classes, or the cafeteria: elementary students bumping into high school students or middle school students bumping into elementary students. Organizing the schedule in order to avoid conflict would have been a great pain in the a * * for whomever was responsible.

In the new campus, although the buildings are all connected, the schools became divided into elementary, middle, high school buildings. The three buildings greatly reduced the conflicts that students had. Now, KIS is building another building, which would probably reduce the conflict even more.

Facilities
Gyms, laboratories, cafeteria, and... even the restroom were modified in the new building. They increased in number, size, and quantity. The students had less conflict using those facilities, and by having new facilities, such as the soccer field or the squash court, the students had less chance of bumping into each other. Not only does the elementary students not bump into high school students but are not able to even notice the existence of them because of the separate buildings. The newly constructed building will probably decrease the chance of running into each other.

School Products
Having this many more students, KIS also had to buy more products for the students: food, books, and even laptops (although this had now changed to one-to-one laptop system). This is a type of bulk buying. As KIS buys more products at once, they can even get discounts for buying so many products. In order to get discounts, sometimes KIS makes contracts with other companies. For example, by allowing JJ Catering to monopolize in our school, the school earned some other benefits. The one-to-one laptop with Apple Makintosh also allowed KIS to have discounts when buying the laptops in a huge amount.

**Gaepo vs. Pangyo**
