{"id":58061,"date":"2023-09-04T21:15:12","date_gmt":"2023-09-04T12:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/sep\/04\/south-korean-teachers-stage-walkout-over-harrassment-by-parents-and-students"},"modified":"2023-09-04T21:15:12","modified_gmt":"2023-09-04T12:15:12","slug":"south-korean-teachers-stage-walkout-over-harassment-by-parents-and-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=58061","title":{"rendered":"South Korean teachers stage walkout over harassment by parents and students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands of staff attend rally in Seoul demanding better protection amid spate of teacher suicides<\/p>\n<p>Teachers in South Korea have staged a mass walkout in protest at widespread harassment by overbearing parents and unruly students, which has led to some staff taking their own lives.<\/p>\n<p>The problem of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jun\/07\/we-torment-others-the-dark-side-of-south-korean-school-life-bullying-school-violence\">bullying and violence among students<\/a> in the country has been well-documented. But teachers are now demanding better protection for themselves amid growing outrage about teaching staff being mistreated, including being <a href=\"https:\/\/www.koreaherald.com\/view.php?ud=20230730000103\">accused of child abuse<\/a> for disciplining students.<\/p>\n<p><em>In the <\/em><em>UK<\/em><em> and Ireland, Samaritans can be contacted on 116 123, or email <a href=\"mailto:jo@samaritans.org\">jo@samaritans.org<\/a> or <a href=\"mailto:jo@samaritans.ie\">jo@samaritans.ie<\/a>. In the US, the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline is <a href=\"tel:%28800%29%20273-8255\">1-800-273-8255<\/a>. In Australia, the crisis support service Lifeline is 13 11 14. Other international helplines can be found at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.befrienders.org\/\">befrienders.org<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/sep\/04\/south-korean-teachers-stage-walkout-over-harrassment-by-parents-and-students\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands of staff attend rally in Seoul demanding better protection amid spate of teacher suicidesTeachers in South Korea have staged a mass walkout in protest at widespread harassment by overbearing parents and unruly students, which has led to some &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2929,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,1895,615,1082,222,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-bullying","category-education","category-schools","category-south-korea","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2929"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58061"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58062,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58061\/revisions\/58062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}