|Chapter 2| Concept and Types of Hate Speech Legislation that defines harassment includes the Act on the Prohibition of Discrimination against Persons with Disabilities and the Labor Standards Act. The Act on the Prohibition of Discrimination against Persons with Disabilities defines “harassment” as “physical, mental, emotional, or verbal acts committed against a person with a disability in the form of organized exclusion, neglect, abandonment, aggravation, harassment, abuse, monetary extortion, and infringement on the right to sexual self-determination” (Article 3, No. 21), and considers “activities to ostracize persons with disabilities or persons related to persons with disabilities or derogatory verbal expressions or conducts which might cause offense or disparagement in schools, facilities, workplaces, local communities, etc. on the basis of disability” (Article 32, No. 3) as prohibited behavior. The Labor Standards Act defines appropriate measures as the rights of employees and employers in cases of workplace harassment (Article 76-2, Article 76-3). In addition, the Seoul Ordinance of Student Rights states that “Founders, management staff, principals, teachers and students of schools should not violate the rights of others through discriminatory words and actions and hateful expressions according to the reasons stated in Article 1” as a right not to be discriminated against (Article 5) (Article 5, No. 3). This can be regarded as forbidding principals, staff, and students from expressing hate speech, and also prohibits bullying in schools. 24

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