About physical punishment in Korea

Nowadays students are easily exposed to bad things because of developing of various media like movie, TV, and Internet. So we can see news relating teenagers’ problems almost every day. Sometimes teenagers act as if they had no common sense like hitting teachers or parents and doing sexual violence so that I am surprised every when I see this kind of news.

But kwak, Seoul’s superintendent of education have taken effects ‘forbidding physical punishment in school’. After that we can see another kind of news that students abuse this regulation for making fun of teachers sometimes. I think it makes students more thoughtless and mess.

But sometimes we can also hear students are hurt seriously by teacher’s hitting or linguistic violence. It is problem of absolutely wrong teacher’s discipline. It's matter of teacher's personality that they hit student seriously. I think it is emotional violence, not discipline. Students may make a mistake since they don’t know what is wrong and right.

It is awkward to hitting blindly but sometimes students don’t pay any attention to teacher’s advice. In this situation what is that teachers can do? I think physical punishment is necessary sometimes, if they make a mistake, teachers should lead them to right way with proper physical punishment and advice.

So rather than forbid physical punishment, the Ministry of Education should make guideline about physical punishment to prevent seriously violence that happens sometimes to students.