Korean teachers suspended for sex harassment

Compiled by ALLISON LAI, MAHADHIR MONIHULDIN and R. ARAVINTHAN 

SIXTEEN male teachers at an all-girls high school in South Korea have been suspended for alleged sexual harassment involving 180 students.

China Press reported that the school in Gwangju was still being investigated after school authorities alerted the police.

Initial probe by the local education authority revealed that the male teachers regularly groped the girls’ buttocks and thighs and also touched their bras.

The case was uncovered following complaints by some students to the school principal last month, triggering an internal investigation.

The school was shocked to find more than a quarter of the school’s 39 male teachers were allegedly involved, and called in the police to investigate.

The girls claimed that some of the male teachers also made demeaning sexual remarks about them, such as “She looks like a pig” or “She should wash dishes for the rest of her life”.

The girls also claimed that some of the teachers threatened them against reporting their behaviour to the school authority or their parents.

> Oriental Daily reported that a nurse in her wedding dress has been hailed a heroine on social media after she stopped to save an injured elderly woman.

It was reported that Xie Dan, who was with her fiancé, promptly got down from her car to help when they drove past an accident in Dalian, Liaoning province in China.

They were on their way to their wedding photo shoot.

The elderly woman, who was riding a tricycle, was knocked down by a car and suffered head injuries.

Xie also performed CPR on the woman while waiting for the paramedics to arrive.

However, the elderly woman reportedly passed away in the hospital later due to the serious injuries.

Following the incident, pictures and videos of Xie’s selfless act have been widely circulated on China’s social media.

Xie told the media that she only did what she should have done.

Hailing her as a heroine, netizens praised her for her kindness and many also sent her warm wishes online.

The above articles are compiled from the vernacular newspapers (Bahasa Malaysia, Chinese and Tamil dailies). As such, stories are grouped according to the respective language/medium. Where a paragraph begins with a >, it denotes a separate news item.