20 91. The Civil Act does not explicitly prohibit domestic corporal punishment. The Child Welfare Act stipulates that no protectors of children shall inflict physical pain or psychological pain on the children and bans committing physical abuse against a child that may hurt his/her body or injure his/her physical health and development; however, as the Civil Act grants parents the right to take disciplinary action, it is hard to stop domestic violence against children unless it escalates into abuse which clearly hurts their body or injures their physical health and development. 2) Questions 92. What does the government plan to replace corporal punishment with alternative disciplines? 93. What are the government's measures to eradicate all forms of physical violence against children including corporal punishment at school and home? Issue 28. Seongam Academy: The Right Not To Be Subjected To Inhumane Treatment 1) Current status 94. "Seongam Academy" was a vagrant camp founded in 1942 in Seongam Island, Ansan in Gyeonggi Province and shut down in 1982. The Japanese Government General of Choseon ordered the institute forcibly took in children by reason of recruiting combatants for the Pacific War during the Japanese colonial era, which was relocated to Gyeonggi Province after the liberation. Whether their parents dead or alive, children, vagrant or poor, were abducted and locked away, falling victim to serious violation of human rights and forced to work. 95. The list of discharged children from the institute stored in the Gyeonggi Provincial Archive shows a total of 4,691 from 1956 to 1982. There can be more children who are missing on the record. 96. A number of victims have testified that the children mostly under the age of 12 were forced to work on salt ponds, farming, stock raising, silkworm or oyster farming. The absolute shortage of food ration drove them to eat wild fruits, grass, insects, snakes, or rats and get sick or even die. They also suffered from beating, physical and sexual assault.