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2) Questions
210. What is the government’s plan in guaranteeing the physical and mental health of
refugee children?
2. Economic Exploitation, Sexual Exploitation and Abuse
Issue 57. Work Placement of Specialized High Schools and Vocational
High Schools
1) Current status
211. Students of specialized high schools have to participate in work placement in
industrial sites in their senior years. However, in 2017, one student who was participating in
the work placement program as a consultant at the customer call center committed suicide,
and other accidents are continuously happening with work placement students such as the
death of a student who was caught in the machine during work placement in Jeju Island.
There are many issues involving students such as violation of various labor related acts,
safety issues, and discrimination based on the forms of employment during work placement.
There are issues relating to a sense of alienation and stress caused by pressure to find work
inside and outside of school, or due to the alienation from the school curriculum because of
work placement. The Ministry of Education announced the plan to settle the Learningcentered work placement and made plans to revise the Elementary and Secondary
Education Act, but the Act has not been amended yet.
2) Questions
212. Is there a government plan to guarantee children's rights in relation to the work
placement?
Issue 58. Child Labor
1) Current Status
213. According to a study conducted by the National Youth Polity Institute, 12.2% of
adolescents (5% of middle school students and 18.1% of high school students) had