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South Korea

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Note: This article is about a country. For meanings, see Korea.

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South Korea (officially known as the Republic of Korea) is a country in East Asia on the southern half of the Korean Peninsula.

It has a population of about 49 million and its official language is Korean. Its capital and largest city is Seoul.

1 Spanking in South Korea
- 1.1 Judicial corporal punishment
- 1.2 Punishment of children
2 Links

[edit] Spanking in South Korea

[edit] Judicial corporal punishment

Judicial corporal punishment in Korea (see here for another photo).

Corporal punishment has a long tradition in Korea and is still popular in the present. Judicial corporal punishment was traditionally given with the delinquent tied to a low punishment bench and his buttocks bared to be caned or paddled with a very long kind of paddle. In a variant, called gonjang (곤장), the bench is in the shape of a horizontal cross and the delinquent's arms were strapped spread to the sides. See here for some photos.

[edit] Punishment of children

For the punishment of children, spanking of the buttocks is common, but also hitting the child's calves. The claves are spanked with the open hand or with an implement such as a cane, called hoichori (회초리). Calf-spanking seems to be a particularly Korean thing.

Children are spanked at home (80% of South Korean parents say they physically discipline their children) but also at school. According to a study conducted in 2003, 70% of South Korean schools permit their teachers the use of corporal punishment. According to some image sources, the lunge position seems to be used a lot in Korean schools for spanking. Recently there have been a number of news reports of abusive punishments in South Korean schools.