Controversy over decision of Committee for Protection of Teachers' Rights on DeepFei-making issue by middle school students in South Korea

In South Korea, a case has come under scrutiny after a middle school student used a teacher's photo to create a sexual exploitation video by DeepFei. The Committee for the Protection of Teachers' Rights has ruled that this act does not violate the teacher's rights.
The teacher in question appealed the decision and requested an administrative hearing. Teachers' associations have also reacted negatively to the decision, intensifying the debate.
On the 11th, the Gwangju Metropolitan Office of Education and the Gwangju branch of the National Teachers' Union (KTU) said
The Eastern State Education Support Center recently held a regional committee to protect teachers' rights and concluded that the Deep Fei case involving Teacher A at a junior high school did not constitute a violation of teachers' rights.
Teacher A noticed that her photo was being used in a sexual exploitation video by DeepFeiK in August last year and reported it to the Education Bureau. After an investigation by the relevant parties, the Education Bureau decided to appoint her as the teacher's rights protection officer early last month.
A committee was held. The committee made this decision after considering that the sexually exploitative materials in question had been deleted by the students and had not been distributed. However, the KTU Gwangju branch
The union has strongly protested the decision, calling it an "unfair judgment." The union pointed out that it had reached the conclusion that the previous law, not the revised law from October this year, was being applied and that the decision did not violate teachers' rights.
Before the law was revised, "production and possession alone, without distribution, would not be punished," but after the revision, it was changed to "production or possession alone is punishable."
The KTU claims that this law was not applied to students who had not taken the necessary measures. The KTU Gwangju branch said, "The fact that students produced pornographic material using the face of a teacher is an act that seriously violates the personality and honor of the teacher.
The teacher also filed a complaint with the education office and requested an administrative hearing.
"This was not an arbitrary decision made by the bureau, but was based on a resolution by the Committee for the Protection of Teachers' Rights," the department said, explaining, "We are proceeding with further procedures in response to the parties' complaints."