SEJONG, Jan. 21 (Korea Bizwire) – School violence in general fell to the lowest level since 2017 last year, but group and cyberbullying cases rose, an annual report by the education ministry showed Thursday. In the survey conducted between Sept. 14 and Oct. 23, 0.9 percent of the respondents said they had experienced school violence [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — New CCTV cameras and surveillance system are capable of detecting fires, break-ins, and school violence. The Korea Internet & Security Agency (KISA) conducted a joint demonstration project with the Ministry of Science and ICT to verify CCTV capabilities in monitoring various disasters and school safety. In the field of [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — Overall school violence has been on a steady decline in recent years, but the number of juvenile sex offenders has spiked significantly, police data showed on Sunday. The number of teenagers arrested for acts of school violence totaled 13,584 last year, marking a decrease of 3 percent from 14,000 [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — The Ministry of Education (MOE) plans to introduce an educational course on social emotions to teach students to control their emotions, learn to live together, and put a stop to suicide and school violence. The MOE announced on Sunday that it will test the program at designated schools in [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of school violence victims in South Korea increased for the third straight year, mostly due to a rise in bullying at elementary schools, a report showed Tuesday. The annual report by the education ministry showed that 1.6 percent of the respondents were victims of school violence, compared [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of students victimized by school violence in Seoul has increased 24.5 percent from a year earlier to 11,425 this year, according to a survey released Wednesday. More than 92 percent of the entire 700,343 students, ranging from fourth graders at elementary schools through senior high schoolers, took [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — A team of medical experts led by Professor Kim Byung-nyun of Seoul National University Hospital has revealed that a psychological treatment program for violent students at 400 schools nationwide launched in 2014 has resulted in improved behaviors and emotions among teenage offenders. The treatment program, which was initially conducted [...]
SEOUL, June 21 (Korea Bizwire) – A scandal surrounding the alleged special treatment of children of conglomerate CEOs and celebrities in a case of school violence has sparked a public outcry, with some going one step further and treating the controversy as a sign of social inequality in the country. According to the Seoul Metropolitan [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 12 (Korea Bizwire) – A recent study by Statistics Korea (Korea Social Trends 2016) showed that men had a higher level of satisfaction in their relationship with their spouse than women, for those in commuter marriages. Of the male respondents living apart from their partners, 64.5 percent said they were satisfied with their [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 19 (Korea Bizwire) – A recent study by the Ministry of Public Safety and Security (MPSS) revealed that Koreans have grown to feel less safe across all social areas in the first half of 2016, with the level of social safety reported by the general population scoring 2.79 out of 5. The ministry [...]