For several years South Korea has had the highest suicide rates among OECD member states. However, committing suicide among young adults, especially middle and high school students, has become one of the most serious social problems. Within the last nine months a total of nine students committed suicide in Daegu due to several reasons: oppression,… Continue Reading »
School violence prevention survey introduced by Gyeonggi Provincial Office of Education has been critizised as a “portrayal of violence”. Many have expressed dissatisfaction over the content of the survey, citing that it has no relevance to the intended topic of school violence prevention. Most notably, the content of the survey included personal and sensitive matters such as asking… Continue Reading »
The National Human Rights Commission of Korea (NHRCK) stated that it is discrimination against a disabled student to exclude him from class , the only the hearing-impaired student, as punishment for school violence without following the given regulation and process. The mother of the hearing-impaired student submitted a petition to NHRCK on November 2010, accusing the… Continue Reading »
Around half of all primary, middle, and senior students believe that they have infringed human rights of another student. A recent survey shows that students tend to believe that human rights problems in the classroom occur in inter-generational conflict, such as student-teacher relations, and are less sensitive to intra-generational conflict such as bullying. This is… Continue Reading »
The government and the ruling party will consolidate emergency numbers for school violence to 117 and vitalize it. While this solution was criticized for being ineffective to deal with school violence, which is hard to uncover even to the homeroom teachers, the government came up with another powerful countermeasure, which comprises of expelling, forced transfer… Continue Reading »
Group bullying has increased a lot recently in elementary and middle schools in South Korea. But not only Korean pupils are affected by this phenomenon, foreign students or children of multicultural background are very often the target. Surveys found that foreign student face all kinds of discrimination. They are being bullied because of their accents,… Continue Reading »
On the 20th of this month, a student committed suicide after serious harassment by his classmates. The bullying described in his testament was shocking; the attacker battered him, threatened to torture the victim with water, leashed him with a wire and forced him to eat snacks fallen on the floor, and extorted an expensive jumper…. Continue Reading »
Public Baths restrict the entrance of senior citizens without proper chaperone Ae Rim Koo (aerimkoo@humanrightskorea.org) Majority of public bath facilities are allowing persons the age of 65 and older to enter only when they are accompanied by guardians. This has been introduced as there is an increasing concern for accidents in the public baths. According… Continue Reading »