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[Hatcher]

This guy went too far!

Hagwon Teacher�s Punch Breaks Student�s Facial Bones

By Kim Rahn
Staff Reporter

Police are investigating a complaint that a hagwon instructor hit a middle school student in the face causing serious injury that required surgery.

According to police in Seoul, a complaint was filed that the 20-something teacher at a cram school hit the 15-year-old boy in the face with his clenched fist several times around 9:40 p.m. March 13. The student suffered fractures to his maxillary and orbital bones.

The boy's father claimed that the boy was standing outside a classroom as punishment for not solving a math question, and that the instructor, presumably displeased with his chewing gum, punched him.

``My son had to undergo surgery, having 16 metal screws put into his face. But the hagwon did not pay even the surgery fee, saying it does not have any money. I'd like to let people know how corporal punishment is rampant at private institutes,'' the father said.

A director of the hagwon said that the teacher hit the boy only once and that he did so because while he was scolding the student for not taking the punishment seriously, the boy grabbed him by the collar.

``We fired the teacher. There may be misunderstanding about the money, as we proposed to the father that we pay the whole cost of treatment and tuition until the student enters college,'' he said.

[Juregen]

WTF!

[rollo]

Hopefully this guy does a few years in a Korean prison!!! If that is all that happens to him,he will have gotten off lucky!!

[harlowethrombey]

huh. i smell something.

a staff reporter for an unidentified newspaper/blog/writing in cement, a story with absolutely no names, places or dates and quotes attributed to. . . who?

really, this is what you do in your spare time, post bogus 'newspaper stories' and gauge people's reactions?


edit: sorry there is a single date. and we do know it takes place 'in seoul' which is like saying 'in new york a crime happened'

[Xuanzang]

Foreigners dont teach math.

[blackjack]

[blackjack]

[goodsounz]

http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2009/03/113_42054.html
It takes a lot of patience and self control to be a good teacher. This guy was obviously at the end of his.

[Xuanzang]

I thought it was one of those foreigner smear stories so an alarm bell rang when I read it was a math hagwon.

[sketcha]

true, the teacher did go too far in this case ...

but this incident does raise the point that a lot of Korean kids need to be disciplined at home, by their parents ...

or else they might run to a teacher who happen to have a bad day that day and not in the mood for any attitude or stupidity from the kids, by stupidity I meant their behavior ...

[Gillian57]

There is absolutely no excuse for this teacher to punch a student. None. It is assult, plain and simple. The teacher got fired?? He should go to jail. I don't care how obnoxious the student was, hitting a kid is unacceptable behaviour for a teacher.

[Gillian57]

[Ilsanman]

UK spelling is acceptable too.

[Yu_Bum_suk]

[I-am-me]

Kim Rhan? Ran away where?