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[Los Angeloser]

Required supervision goes unchecked causes death by dragging and more...
http://koreajoongangdaily.joinsmsn.com/news/article/article.aspx?aid=2967817&cloc=joongangdaily|home|newslist1
"The police said that the boy got off the taekwondo hagwon shuttle bus, but the driver, a 45-year-old man surnamed Jang, who is also the principal of the hagwon, didn�t see that his jacket was caught in the door.
The bus took off and the boy was dragged about five meters (16 feet) into a 1-ton truck that was parked along the side of the road.

The driver told the police that he heard something and immediately stopped the bus. That�s when he saw the boy lying in the road.

Instead of calling the 119 emergency rescue service, he loaded the boy into the bus and rushed to a nearby hospital, but the boy died at the hospital.
The police said that there were four other elementary school students in the vehicle but no adult to supervise students getting on or off the bus.

Under the country�s traffic laws, an adult instructor or staff member must accompany students in all vehicles registered for students� transportation at academic institutions, including schools and hagwon.
When a supervisor doesn�t ride in the bus, the driver must check the safety conditions - check safety belts and manage the door of the vehicle firsthand at every stop.

In January, a 7-year-old elementary school girl surnamed Kim was killed by a piano hagwon bus in Guro, southwestern Seoul.
The girl tried to close the heavy bus door after she got off, but slipped on the icy road. The girl fell underneath the bus and the driver, who is also the principal of his hagwon, didn�t see her and ran over the girl.

According to the Korea Transportation Institute, about 28,000 vehicles are registered as hagwon and school buses, but it is estimated that there are about 180,000 vehicles not reported as school or hagwon buses to the local government.
�At least one official must be assigned in order to monitor students� safety conditions and to reduce such accidents,� a spokesman for the Transportation Institute said."

[Dodge7]

That's tragic! Unbelievable.

[Smithington]

I'm just lost for words. I don't even know what to write....Where does one begin to discuss all the factors that contribute to such tragedies in Korea. A sad and completely unnecessary loss of innocent lives.

Tragic (and infuriating).

[Stan Rogers]

Just terrible. There should have been someone on the bus to help the kids get off safely. A parent should have also been there to pick up their child.

The bus driver was the responsible adult there at the time and thus is responsible for what happened.

So sad.

[Captain Corea]

That's why I never let my little girl take the school bus here.