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[Bibbitybop]

Last month, I read about a Korean teacher in SMOE that was guilty of touching his 12 year old girl students and having them sit on his lap. He denied the allegations, but paid a fine of 20 million won. Now, SMOE has given him another teaching position.


Does anyone have a link to that article? I swear I read about it on Koreabeat or Marmot's Hole, but in their archives I can't find it. Maybe it was somewhere else.

[Zaria32]

With all the to do about CPN, and "Western" pedophiles, you'd think Korea would really protect their kids. But there was a story in the paper a couple of months ago about a Korean step-father fondling the breests of his step-daughter, and the court said it was "affection."

In my hogwon a male K-teacher was inappropriately touching middle school girls, and the director told him to stop...but after that they went ahead and left him alone with middle school girls in the evening.

[kingplaya4]

Koreans consider each other as all part of a kind of "extended" family. I'm not sure how far this mindset goes when dealing with pedophiles, but I bet they don't consider it on the same level when done by Koreans. A foreigner doing it probably just seems criminal and dirty, while perhaps they view it as "affectionate" when done by a Korean.

[Scotticus]

[JamesFord]

[Young FRANKenstein]

[Atavistic]

[Benicio]

Here you go:

http://english.hani.co.kr/arti/english_edition/e_national/224984.html

Not that kiddy fiddling is acceptable in any way shape or form, but Korean on Korean gets labelled as "affection" far more than it should.
They generally turn a blind eye to Kteachers who are a bit frisky with students. Some of the things I saw K-teachers do at the girls' middle school I worked at made me feel very, very uncomfortable.
No one at the school, besides me, felt that any lines had been crossed.

Here's the equation we arrive at:
Foreigner on Korean= terrible, bad foreigner
Korean on Korean= that's just the way it is here

[Atavistic]

[Benicio]

Seems to be the all-encompassing philosophy:

2 schoolgirls accidentally killed by a US military vehicle in 2002= entire country erupts into mass demonstrations and venomous hatred against the "evil" Americans.
Kim Jong-Il and his father have intentionally killed millions of Koreans and keep 20-22 million of their brethren enslaved in the world's largest concentration camp- North Korea= let's just not talk about that, it's not prudent to discuss or think about it at this time or maybe ever!

That is just one example....

[Bibbitybop]

Thanks Benicio!

[kingplaya4]

No, some people misconstrued my post. First of all let me say the only thing I know for a fact is that many Koreans consider the whole race as part of one big extended family. The second part of it was supposition.

I'm sure a Korean pedophile would not be a popular character, all I'm saying is I bet even though they would dislike him, they might use the affection card so as to not have to punish him too harshly. I don't in any way think Korean culture condones it, despite the aforementioned court case with the father who touched his stepdaughter.

I just believe (with some circumstantial evidence) that it is a different level of offence when committed by a foreigner.

[Bibbitybop]

[Mr. Pink]

[ryouga013]