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7 in 10 Schools Allow Corporal Punishment

Despite an apparent drop in corporal punishment at school, seven in 10 elementary, middle and high schools, allow teachers to use physical punishment against disorderly students. According to the Ministry of Education and Human Resources Development yesterday, 7,536 out of 10,381 schools across the country maintain an internal regulation that empowers teachers to dispense corporal punishment.

http://times.hankooki.com/lpage/nation/200309/kt2003091418242511950.htm

[Corporal]

None of you want to experience Corporal punishment.

[weatherman]

Depends on what they are saying is corporal punishment. I worked for a year at a girls highschool, and I saw daily students being hit with a ruler over the palms of their hands, and I thought nothing of this. Of course a lot of girls had to kneel down on their knees and have thier arms above their head type punishment too, which I thought was stupid and useless. I saw only a few incidents of mean and unusual punishment. And mostly this was done by the female teachers.

[little mixed girl]

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[GlowStickGirl]

As odd as it may seem, but many korean parents actually encourage teachers to physically punish their own kids at school (obviously, not of the excessive kind). This is clearly something foreigners have a tough time understanding...but it's been a part of the korean culture for a very long time. Discipline is regarded as very important.

[Son Deureo!]

[Walter Mitty]