Is corporal punishment still practicized in Korean schools? Did you experience it personally?

I do not know what to think about various media reports, for example
http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20160404000771 or https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/8e00/3afe6c58dfed2945f2ba1eea2da3828456ff.pdf

Thank you in advance for your answers!

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Is corporal punishment still practicized in Korean schools? Did you experience it personally? 

I do not know what to think about various media reports, for example 
http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20160404000771 or https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/8e00/3afe6c58dfed2945f2ba1eea2da3828456ff.pdf

Thank you in advance for your answers!

pascala34 · Answer

@JaPaniKa These days? I'm not a student anymore so I don't exactly know what happens at school. I hope it's not true.

sivlume · Answer

It’s illegal now and teachers who physically punish their students get reported because it’s a child abuse.

There was corporal punishment when I was in middle school. Honestly it didn’t give any negative effect on me and other students. 
But I think it’s good to hear that Government strictly restricts it these days.

Deleted user · Answer

Like in western societies,
also in Korean society, there are  still some advocates of corporal punishment who always cite from the bible "Spare the rod, spoil the child".

Yeah, this kind of stuff is really happened in nowadays also. 
(my high school time: 2009-2011)
but,recently in school, corporal punishment is officially abolished by korean law, so actually there are many school teachers who raise a question 
that they don't know how to treat students at all, and the prohibition will mess up all kinds of education.

well, I disagree with this kind of thought, because actually corporal punishment is not that useful than the advocates might think, and just invites defiance to adults.

DannyJoung · Answer

Of course, I was.  When I was a kid, there was a student who was badly beaten by school punishment to bleed and bruised. The same goes for my father's generation. In my parents' generation, mainly because they were poor and could not pay tuition, teachers usually physically punished them by out of date of tuition payment.

But it was different in our generation. Class teachers are usually asked by principals to check how many students can go to higher schools and University. So, the main reason students are physically punished is because of their scores.

Public schools teachers should at least think more about their role, at least in the future. Because many students, including me, think that Private Institute teachers have better teaching methods and are optimized for studying for exams.

It makes sense to understand why children say that public school classes are more inefficient than Private Institute, even though teachers in public schools themselves are institutionalized and become teachers much harder way than Private Institute Teachers are.

They actually became like 'Educational technicians' selling 'knowledge', not 'Teachers'. When they graduate the education bachelor degree and go through the Pre-teacher's course, they have a passion to teach their students, but if the principal keeps harass them by school test score, their passion will disappear in a moment.

They eventually fail to excite children who do not have a taste for studying and try to enlighten them by hitting them as a last resort. But that's not possible anymore either. That's why they lament the "collapse of the right to education" keep saying students would be wrong instead of thinking about fixing the unreasonable education system they sustained.

Soy-fluent-en-KOREAN · Answer

If it happens, parents get really angry and call the police.

Sung567 · Answer

I heard my niece who is in primary school has ever got hit like that in school. and that is accepted right thing widely in Korea. In Korea, human rights are not universal norms yet.

@JaPaniKa These days? I'm not a student anymore so I don't exactly know what happens at school. I hope it's not true.

If it happens, parents get really angry and call the police.

I heard my niece who is in primary school has ever got hit like that in school. and that is accepted right thing widely in Korea. In Korea, human rights are not universal norms yet.

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