SEOUL, March 10 (Korea Bizwire) — With a new school year underway, the number of parents buying audio recording devices for their children is increasing sharply as a way to punish offenders and collect evidence in cases of school violence. According to Naver DataLab, the monthly shopping click index for voice recorders hit a one-year [...]
SEOUL, March 1 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea has been abuzz about the issue of bullying lately, particularly with the return of the Netflix original series “The Glory”, which has raised awareness of school violence around the world. The series, which has become a must-watch for TV fans everywhere, will be back for Part 2 [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — The Constitutional Court has ruled that the school violence prevention law mandating a school bully’s apology to the victim and other countermeasures is constitutional, officials said Tuesday. The court made the decision 6-3, rejecting a middle school student’s petition claiming that the anti-school violence law infringes upon the freedom [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul Administrative Court has designated three one-judge divisions tasked with hearing school violence cases in an effort to cope with a rise in such cases and speed up rulings, sources said Friday. Starting next Monday, the three divisions will be tasked with hearing school violence cases on top [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — Following the return to in-person classes, violence in schools has increased this year, a government survey showed Tuesday. In the survey by the education ministry, 1.7 percent of students said they suffered violence in schools in 2022, up 0.6 percentage points from last year, when most schools shifted classes [...]
SEOUL, May 31 (Korea Bizwire) — School violence, which dropped significantly during the pandemic era, is beginning to rise. The Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency reported that the reported number of school violence cases decreased from 11,832 in 2019 to 5,555 in 2020, before it started to climb back up to 6,823 cases last year. The [...]
SEOUL, March 25 (Korea Bizwire) — Smartphones and online social platforms will be included in restraining orders against perpetrators of school violence to prevent secondary offenses through online means. The government on Thursday announced a new policy under which any student who is expelled for school violence will have the case recorded on their student [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — An analysis showed that school violence is becoming less physical. One factor behind this is the difficulty in entering into face-to-face contact due to the COVID-19 pandemic. According to the data that Rep. Lee Tan-hee of the Democratic Party received from the National Police Agency, the number of ‘assault [...]
SEOUL, March 13 (Korea Bizwire) — After the bullying accusations against South Korea’s twin volleyball stars Lee Jae-yeong and Lee Da-yeong gained media attention, the so-called ‘school violence me-too’ phenomenon is spreading even to the entertainment industry. The twin sisters are accused of having bullied fellow students when they were in school. School violence issues, [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — A growing number of K-pop stars have been embroiled in school violence accusations raised by their purported victims of bullying during their school days, informed officials said Tuesday. The recent series of school bullying accusations against celebrities have surfaced after twin sister pro volleyball stars — Lee Jae-yeong and [...]