The Korea Times
About 150 cases of physical assaults by students on teachers are reported each year in Gyeonggi Province alone, authorities said. According to the Gyeonggido Office of Education on Sunday, cases of students undermining teacher’s authority and the school system across 2,700 schools in Gyeonggi Province were recorded at 1,213 in 2023, 947 in 2024 and 442 during the first half of 2025. Of these cases, there were 164 incidents of students physically assaulting teachers in 2023, 148 in 2024 and 69 during the first half of 2025. The findings indicate an overall downward trend in incidents of students undermining teachers’ authority following the death of an elementary school teacher in 2023 and subsequent set of laws enacted to protect teachers’ authority. The number of physical assault cases against teachers, however, does not reflect the same trend, with the most recent incident occurring just last month in a middle school in Gwangju, where a student pushed a teacher and inflicted injuries needing two weeks of hospital stay. Last year, a middle schooler swung a baseball bat at a teache
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