Burwood Girls High School's Korean class began with six students of Korean background.
But five years later, it has become the second most popular foreign-language program at the school.
Mr Qeefaa An is a Korean teacher who started the Korean class at Burwood High Girls in 2012. 
"When I started to teach here, there were only six Korean students," Mr An tells SBS Korean. "But now 140 year 7 students and 95 students from years 8 to 12 are learning Korean - and 80 of them are local [non-Korean] students."
Source: SBS Korean
Most of students started to learn Korean because of their passionate interest in K-Pop and K-Drams. This is mainly thanks to the 'Korean Wave' of Korean culture going global since the early 1990s - a phenomenon known by the term 'Hallyu.'
Year 9 student Jenny has been learning Korean since year 8. She says her friends love a lot of Korean things. "I also like Korean K-Pop, K-Dramas, actors and actresses," she says.
Another year 9 student Linen says that as she looks up to a lot of K-Pop idols and K-drama actors and actresses it is really interesting to learn about the language.
Maddy of year 9 said Korean is a fun language and it means she gets to learn more about some of people that she looks up to like K-Pop Idols. 
The Korean course running at Burwood Girls High School is particularly special to the Korean community here in Australia.
Students wrote Korean words in a white board. Many of them are names of K-Pop artists. Source: SBS Korean Program
This is because the principal of the school, Ms Mia Kumar, led a campaign to revive Korean beginners' courses in the public education system in NSW.
There are three categories in Korean languages in the NSW HSC: heritages, continuers and beginners. The beginners’ course was started in 1993 but was discontinued as a result of lack of enrolment.
In 2010, Ms Kumar visited Korea as a part of principals’ delegation and she found an opportunity to introduce Korean as a language for her students.
"I think language learning is significant part of being a functional person in society today."
Then, she realised that the beginners’ course was missed and launched a campaign to revive it. Her active campaign was fruitful. The Korean beginners’ course was re-introduced into public schools in NSW in 2016.
Ms Kumar's contribution to promote the Korean language in Australian school system was recognised by Korean government and she received a Korean president’s award last year.
Burwood Girls High School caters for 1,135 students also teaches other languages; Chinese, Indonesian, Italian and more. More than 40 per cent of the students are learning one of six different languages as a second language.
Principle Ms Mia Kumar’s strong belief that a learning language would positively influence on the future of students has built these active language programs at the school.
"I think students all to have an opportunity to do a language," she says.
Source: SBS Korean
"I think living in future one of the most important things is to learn an Asian language - they are our closest partners.
"We need to understand their culture. We need to be able to speak to them.
"I feel very strongly passionate about learning a language. Our students seem to like doing languages here.
"I think language learning is significant part of being a functional person in society today."
"You have to know how to communicate with others and I think best way of understanding people is by learning their languages."
The fact that Korean is available to learn in the public education system in Australia means a lot to students - especially those of a Korean background.
Korean-Australian Nabin Kim came to Australia when she was year 4 and she started to learn Korean at Burwood Girls High School in year 8.
She says learning Korean language at an Australian school means a lot to her because she usually uses English a lot at the school and if she learns Korean in class, she can maintain her Korean language skills much better.
Another Korean-Australian student Hayley Choi has lived in Australia for six years. She believes if she keeps learning Korean at school and does the test in HSC her Korean skill will improve.
Hayley said she could get a career like an interpreter or a diplomat by utilising her bilingual language skills and hopes that she is able to teach Korean to her children when she have her own family.
SBS Korean hopes that the students learning Korean contribute to broadening understanding between Australia and Korea in the future!
