ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses important aspects of school violence occurring in South Korea. It introduces the educational system in general and describes the daily lives of students in schools and the school violence they experience. The chapter presents several policies and educational initiatives designed to address school violence and highlights challenges with the management of classes and yaja as well as after school private tuition. Many reports on school violence suggest that the contributing sources of school violence are family factors such as parents' socio-economic status and home discipline, gender differences, stress, and peer relations. Students who participated in the international comparative research on peer aggression and well-being survey have expressed how their friends interact with each other. Since the 1990s, the government has recognised the significance of school violence and it finally established the Act on the Prevention of and Countermeasures against Violence in Schools in 2004.
