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They were among 45 applicants across six major national universities who saw their college dreams derailed due to histories of school violence, highlighting a growing shift in how character is weighed in Korean university admissions.

Starting next year, all universities in Korea will be required to implement mandatory deductions for applicants with school violence records, regardless of the admission type. The policy shift was prompted by public backlash after it was revealed that the son of former prosecutor Chung Sun-sin — who was briefly appointed head of the National Office of Investigation in 2023 — had been transferred to another high school due to bullying but was still admitted to SNU with just a two-point deduction on the CSAT.

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[–] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 22 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Let's just hope (haha, as if) this isn't zero-tolerance nonsense where self defense is considered the same as assault.

[–] doctordevice@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

My lone suspension in high school was exactly this. They even gave me a longer suspension than the bully who had been verbally harassing me for six months, progressed to threats of physical violence, and then acted on that physical violence. But because he didn't leave any physical marks on me and my one punch in reaction gave him a massive black eye, I got punished more. He even started choking me afterwards. Great fun!

That bitch never bullied me again though.

[–] arcterus@piefed.blahaj.zone 8 points 1 week ago

This was my immediate thought. This sounds good if it's enforced properly, but schools have an unfortunate tendency to punish victims.

[–] SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world -3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I love how it's just "Korea" now - the North has been fully consumed by China, or something.

Anyway, South Korea is once again showing the world how it's done. Good on them.

[–] PanGodofPanic@lemmy.blahaj.zone 26 points 1 week ago

I mean, yeah. Normally North Korea is so irrelevant to the discussion, or it would be so absurd to suggest that we're talking about them, that we can just exclude the territorial indicator when it's not relevant. We don't call Kpop "SKpop" because it's exceedingly obvious to everyone involved that Korean culture reaching outside the peninsula is almost exclusively emanating from the south. North Korea has made itself so isolated and irrelevant that we can just forget it exists in regular discussion.