Family on November 14th 2017 includes plans to incorporate sexual harassment
into items of monitoring for every workplace and reinforce punishment to the
level of imprisonment or monetary penalty. On November 28th 2017, the Ministry
of Gender Equality announced the Measures to Prevent Sexual Harassment in
the Public Sector in cooperation with the Ministry of Employment and Labor and
the Ministry of Public Administration and Security which ensures control and
monitoring of a higher organization in case of sexual harassment committed by
a high ranking official in public organizations. Still, the situation of victims of
sexual crime is not properly reflected in labor supervision by regional
employment and labor administrations and investigation by the police and
prosecutors. Therefore, it is urgently needed to have more labor supervisors or
investigators with gender-responsive senses exclusively in charge of gender
discrimination in employment and sexual crime, respectively. In addition, recently,
an increasing number of people appeal to in-house counselors and HR staff
instead of filing an official petition or a lawsuit with an outside organization.
Thus, an effective training should be reinforced to enhance the level of expertise
of the staff in charge of the matter.
[15] Responses to Sexual Harassment and Sexual Violence in Elementary, Middle
and High Schools (List of Issues 10)
67. The result of the Fact-finding Survey on Sexual Harassment of Students
Committed by Elementary, Middle and High School Teachers conducted on
1,000 male and female high school students by the NHRCK in 2017 found that
27.7% answered that they “have experienced sexual harassment by a teacher
after entering high school,” meaning that three out of ten students have
experienced sexual harassment committed by a teacher since they started high
school. Looking at types of sexual harassment, physical harassment took up the
largest share with 23.4% followed by verbal harassment with 9.9%, visual
harassment with 5.8% and forced harassment with 1.2%. When asked who the
offender was (multiple responses allowed), 62.4% answered that it was a subject
teacher which was followed by a home room teacher at 40.2% and a non-subject
teacher at 7.1%. The reasons behind teachers’ sexual harassment of students