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The government yesterday designated March to April as a period in which it will fight school violence by encouraging victims and offenders to report problems to school and police authorities. Reports can be made to the police in person, by e-mail, phone or the mail.

Late last month the Education Ministry released a five-year plan to crack down on school violence, aiming to reduce it by 25 percent. According to a survey conducted among 5,000,000 schoolchildren, 4 percent experienced property theft, 3 percent coercion and 2.51 percent physical abuse. After the law on curbing school violence was enacted in July 2003 and surveillance was strengthened, cases of school violence dropped by 24 percent to 1,871 in Seoul.

"However, more early graders experienced school violence and some acts became more cruel," said Kim.
By Jin Hyun-joo, The Korea Herald (March 5, 2005)
http://www.koreaherald.co.kr/SITE/data/html_dir/2005/03/05/200503050035.asp

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Does dungchim qualify as school violence?

"If you teach Kindergarten kids, you may well find them 'dungchim -ing' you before too long (a finger is projected up your butt)"
A guide to teaching in Korea
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[Yu_Bum_suk]

[rapier]

The kids need discipline, exercise, guidance by fresh and enthusiastic teachers,liesure time, sports, hobbies, interests, cross-cultural exchange, more attention from their parents..some corporal punishment..rules, boundaries. So many fundamental things are lacking in the make up of the average korean child. Books alone are not an education.
As it is, they are nudged into class after class, staffed by overworked and jaded teachers..daydreaming from lesson to lesson, tired, idle, rebellious, and bored.
The deficiencies in the educational system, and that which has plagued the west too, are obvious to me- who was raised under an entirely different system- one that worked to a far greater standard.