In recent years private academic institutions have gotten out of hand in the way they advertise their services. Commercials and billboards with sayings like,”5th grade is too, start in 4th,” and this buses last stop is SKY(Seoul, Korea and Yonsei Universities) are common. Saying such as these only burden both child and parent into thinking… Continue Reading »
Would you use hired help to beat your child for better grades?It was reported on April 3rd that parents are increasingly seeking out private academic institutions or tuitions that will inflict physical punishment on their children. A parent in a district in Seoul admitted to sending her child to an abusive private after-school academy, miles… Continue Reading »
A 16-year-old child of an illegal immigrant from Nigeria was denied admission to high school. Her middle school teacher said that “she cannot apply for admission to a high school, because she doesn’t have a foreign registration number,” so she asked the Gong Gam Human Rights Law Foundation (Gong Gam) for help. The Gong Gam… Continue Reading »
In the state of an increase of abandoned babies by social prejudices for single moms, a baby box system was developed and became controversial. A church located in Seoul developed the baby box to protect babies from harm in the process of abandonment, so they can be sent to the orphanages safely. However, there is… Continue Reading »
A man in his 30′s, who was revealed to be a civil servant, was found that he has shown his girlfriend’s two young daughters, ages seven and eight, pornography videos and raped them many times. The two kids lived with him since 2007. Their mother thought that he was a diligent civil servant and looked like he loved her kids, so she decided to live with him. However, two years later since the women… Continue Reading »
On January 21st, pastor Kim(alias) found three sisters in their teens having serious illness, symptom of malnutrition in the the basement of an apartment building in Goyang city located close to Seoul. Pastor Kim took them immediately to the hospital because of their dire health conditions. According to the Goyang police, the second eldest sister… Continue Reading »
Violent skirmish reported in Posco mill site in India No letting-up in the 8-year opposition to $12B project By Ara Cho On Feb. 5, Abhaya Sahu, head of Posco Protirodh Sangram Samiti (PPSS), an organization leading the protests against Posco, went on hunger strike near Govindpur in the eastern Indian state of Odisha to… Continue Reading »
Park Geun-hye Moon Jae-in 1 Economic democratization to enhance the fairness Fulfillment of ‘human economy’ by job revolution 2 Construction of Korean welfare system Economic democratization of win-win cooperation 3 Supply of the growth engine and job creation through creation of economy Construction of welfare state and a society of gender equality 4 Establishment of… Continue Reading »
Nowadays daily routine of children in South Korea is quite similar to one another: school, hagwon, or private academy, and home, and repeat. Even as children, they lead as busy and repetitive of lives as any adults. Furthermore, there is a crucial lack of play culture in their daily lives. In addition, child care services… Continue Reading »
Recently there has been a surge of discussions about the prevalence of sex-related crimes as well as young Koreans’ exposure to cultural contents with sexual materials. Often they are taught adult behaviors without much discretion. Many media outlets now freely broadcast sexually explicit materials without much consideration of minor viewers. In August 2011, the Korea Communications… Continue Reading »