A middle school student who made sexual remarks to a female teacher complained about the ”three hours of service” and ended up in a commotion = South Korea

A junior high school student who was given community service after making sexual remarks to a female teacher during class appealed the ruling and filed a lawsuit, but lost the case.
According to the legal community, on the 2nd, the Suwon District Court filed a lawsuit against the principal of B Middle School by A-kun.
In a lawsuit to revoke the measures taken by the Educational Rights Protection Committee, the plaintiff's claim was dismissed. In 2023, A, a second-year student at B Junior High School, did not follow the instructions of teacher C during class and repeatedly used sexually inappropriate language.
The case was then referred to the Educational Rights Protection Committee on the grounds that the teacher felt sexually embarrassed. Based on the Teacher Status Law and other regulations, the Educational Rights Protection Committee of B Junior High School determined that Mr. A's actions were an infringement of educational activities.
The school also decided to sentence A to three hours of community service. A's side stated, "The teacher misheard something he said while responding to a friend's prank, and there was no evidence that he disrupted the school's education with sexual remarks."
However, the court ruled that "talking openly about genitalia in a public place is an extremely disrespectful act and is unbecoming of a woman."
The court did not accept the allegations, stating that the allegations could potentially harm the victim teacher's sexual feelings of shame. The court noted the difference between the words A actually used and those C heard, and said, "The words contain sexual connotations.
"There is no big difference in the way he speaks and acts," he said. "As long as the plaintiff has completed secondary education, even if he is subjected to unpleasant pranks by his classmates, he cannot disrupt classes.
"It is natural that they should have restrained their reaction so as not to cause a commotion, but when you add in the fact that they made a fuss and did not follow instructions to calm down, it is enough to be considered an infringement of educational activities," the court ruled.