Posted on 11 August 2010. Tags: corporal punishment, education, Gyeonggi-do, Gyeonggi-do schools, JoongAng Daily, JoongAng Ilbo, Korea, Korean dress codes, Korean education policy, Korean law, school violence, Seoul schools, Society or Culture, Youth
According to the JoongAng Ilbo, corporal punishment is to be phased out in Gyeonggi-do schools.
In Gyeonggi, students who were to receive corporal punishment will instead receive “knowledge and virtue-based punishments,” such as writing book reports, completing community service projects or doing extra assignments.
They’re also to be phased out in Seoul schools as well, but no concrete steps have been taken in this direction. This is interesting:
Examination of students’ belongings without prior notice, regulation of hair length, verbal abuse and school violence will be prohibited. The teacher’s duty to monitor students’ dress code and conduct of behavior at school gates will be removed. Measures will be taken to raise awareness of student rights and student councils will be given greater autonomy.
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Posted in Media, Politics
Posted on 26 April 2010. Tags: copyright, Korean copyright, Korean law
[This is the second post in a series on copyright and blogging in Korea. The first part : "Can I See Your License Please Sir?" on Creative Commons Licensing, can be found here.]
Admit it.
You’ve broken copyright law.
There was that post about Namdaemun or something, where you couldn’t find a decent angle of the Seoul monument amongst the hundreds in your own photo library do you’ve gone to Google Images and “borrowed” a shot from there, slipped it into your post and that’s that. No harm done?
Well, in reality, there is probably no harm done, especially if you are a blogger writing to keep the folks home abreast of developments here in Korea and aren’t making a bajillion dollars off a bajillion page views every day. But technically you have stolen the image (or other work) and used it without permission.
You’ve broken copyright law.
And you’re going to jail.
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Posted in Media, Tech
