Is Kiss A Real School In Korea? XO Kitty Filming Locations

No, Kiss is not a real school in Korea. Kiss is a fictional school developed by Jenny Han in Kitty's story.

The American author Han and her writing team created the fictional boarding school Korean Independent School of Seoul in the romantic series.

However, there is an international school in Seoul, South Korea that sounds just the same. It's called KIS, Korean International School.

Nonetheless, these schools are not the same and not related to each other.

While filming the show, they worked in a real art school in Uiwang, South Korea. The exterior design of the movie has shot at Kaywon University of Art & Design.

In the series, Katherine Song Covey moved from their hometown Portland, Oregon, to Seoul, South Korea.

The character wanted to learn about her later mom's life and reunited with her boyfriend, Dae Heon Kim.

As a result, she joined the prestigious boarding school Kiss. Her mother also studied in the same school in her junior year, as she received the scholarship.

During that period, Koreans from abroad were invited to study about their culture.

Covey gets the scholarship in the school. She planned to get close to Dae and gathered knowledge about Korean culture and her mother.

But nothing goes as planned once she joins the school.

Fans felt attracted to the actors and shared the desire to enroll in the school where the Xo Kitty cast studied in Seoul.

XO Kitty was filmed in different parts of South Korea. It mainly featured the Seoul sites.

The places used to film XO Kitty include Gyeongbokgung Palace, Ssamzigil shopping mall, and Bukchon Hanok Village.

Gia Kim says shooting in Korea was a dream come true for her as she grew up in South Korea, and during that period, she reunited with her family.

As a result, she explored her country and discovered it through the show.

The show began filming in Spring 2022. It was a very different experience for the lead actress Anna Cathcart who had visited Korea for the sequel 'To The All The Boys Franchise.' 

The actress said to Distractify, that she fell in love with the place. 

Multiple locations have been chosen to play on-screen scenes on The KISS campus.

Kaywom Art School

The exterior scene of the show has captured in Uiwang at Kaywon University of Art & Design.

There was a special location for the KISS library in Sejong. It's the National Libray of Korea.

The cast member stayed two hours away from the location. Anthony Keyvan praised the book as she felt it was so cool, per Tudum.

Other Locations In Seoul

While sharing the interior of the series, it has shot around the Seoul area.

The show shared the KISS welcome party, featured at the Dongdaemun Design Plaza in the first episode.

They shared different sites, including DDP contains parks, the Dongdaeum neighborhood, a design museum, and retail stores.

The scene where the KISS student joined the hike is the Military command post in Seojangdae. In addition, the camping trip site is on Yeongheung Island.

While shooting the scene on the camp trip, they stayed at a Mykonos-themed hotel.

The grocery shopping site Seoul Central Market is a Hanaro Mart, a Korean grocery chain branch.

The massive party scene was shot in the Paradise City club Rubik. In the series, it was denoted as a debaucherous nightclub.

Han River, a public island park, was also featured in the series.

The Han Hotel Yuri and her family live showed exterior parts of The State Tower Namsan while the interiors of the Grand Hyatt Seoul.

They also featured some parts in the Pacific Hotel ballroom.

Goyang

The airport scenes were shot at ICN, featured on the show as Incheon Internation Airport in Incheon, South Korea.

Meanwhile, some final parts of episode ten were shot at the Korea International Exhibition Center (KINTEX) in Ilsanseo-gu, Goyang.

Cheonan

Episode eight background captured the end-of-year talent show in Cheonan at the Independence Hall of Korea.

The crew and the cast member traveled outside South Korea to shoot some parts. 

As uniforms are compulsory in all Korean schools, the students of Korean Independent Schools wear a mandatory dress.

All the secondary students in South Korea wear the attire prescribed by the school. While elementary schools have uniforms, some private school does not have the same rules.

The student should wear the uniform when they start middle school.

Girls and boys have the same dress on top. The South Korean uniform includes a shirt, tie, and blazer, where boys wear pants and girls sports skirts.

In the winter season, they wear outerwear. Generally, they are not allowed to wear make-up and Nail Polish.

The school differentiates the clothes with wave patterns and lengths.

In recent days, the Ministry of Education has been boosted to use pants as school uniforms.

The Korean school uniform has become trendy, and they sport fashion-forward attire, per Love To Know.

Like the trend, the series character models the typical Korean uniform.

The girl's school uniform consists of a bow tie, a sweater, a collared sleeves white shirt, a plated skirt, and outerwear.

Meanwhile, the boy's uniform includes a collared long-sleeved white shirt, pants, a tie, and a coat.