I don’t know how deeply this story penetrated the western press, but it was pretty big news over here – though it didn’t garner much mainstream coverage.

We hear grumblings about the violence in the Korean school system but we rarely witness it. Last month, this changed when one student recorded a vicious assault by a teacher on her handphone.

The teacher was fired and that’s all.

[Watch video]

[Chosun Ilbo Article]