school or in other institutions for children? 3. Personal liberty, and prohibition of torture and other cruel, inhumane or degrading treatment or punishment Corporal punishment 1) Current situation 36. The Periodic Report states that corporal punishment is prohibited in principle at school and allowed only in very limited cases when necessary for educational reasons (para. 144). NHRCK recommended in 2002 that corporal punishment should be expressly banned in the relevant legislation, noting that corporal punishment is a violation of the students' personal liberty. Still, corporal punishment remains as a controversial issue and is being used for allegedly educational purpose. Moreover, there exists no legislation banning corporal punishment on the ground of infringement on the rights of the child. 37. The tendency is that teachers are generous about corporal punishment. A survey conducted by the Korean Federation of Teachers' Associations in 2010 among the teachers in kindergartens and elementary and secondary schools showed that 82.1% of the respondents were opposed to a total ban on corporal punishment. 38. Recently, the education office in Gyeonggi Province announced an ordinance to protect students’ basic human rights banning all forms of corporal punishment 2) Questions 39. What is the reason that, despite the repeated recommendations by the Committee on the Rights of the Child, corporal punishment prevails in this country? Does the Government have a plan to take legislative actions to prohibit corporal punishment? Violence against student athletes 1) Current situation 40. Student athletes (students) are suffering a serious damage from violence against themselves. According to "The 2008 Survey on the Situation of Human Rights of Student Athletes" conducted - 10 -