Seoul To Implement Tougher Measures Against Teachers Accused of Sexual Abuse

I guess we will see how strictly enforced these new measures are on South Korean teachers:

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Teachers found guilty of committing sex offenses will be deprived of their teacher’s license, the Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education (SMOE) said, Thursday.

The office said it will take a zero-tolerance approach to sex offenses by teachers.

The measure came after a group of male teachers at a public high school in Seoul were recently accused of sexually harassing female teachers and students for more than a year.

“Schools should be the safest social fence for students,” Superintendent Cho Hee-yeon said at a press conference at the SMOE building in central Seoul.

“We’ll take stern legal action against teachers found to have committed sex offenses. For a single offence, we’ll not only kick out such teachers convicted of sexual molestation but also disclose their names,” he said.

If a teacher’s sexual misconduct is reported, the SMOE will launch a special inspection immediately and will have the teacher removed from his or her post even before the police investigation is concluded or prosecution’s indictment is issued.  [Korea Times]

Here is what civic groups have to say about the new measures:

Civic groups, however, said that the SMOE’s measure would not be an ultimate solution because most of the abusers have been punished softly and returned to schools after one or two years of probation.

“Of a total of 240 teachers disciplined for their sexual abuse in the last five years, 115 teachers, or 47.9 percent, still remain in school,” said a parent group official.

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tbonetylr
9 years ago

If so, that would mean that the S. Korean government would have to put the lives of children(little girls and boys) before older and more “mature deserving” S. Koreans ❓ I don’t believe it will ever happen, they’ve been talking like this for years so why should anyone believe it now ❓ Respect thy elders in S. Korea so let them do unto you as you would expect and shut up parents ❗

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