Park Sugi, Gwangju City Council Member, "City Education Office Personnel Chaos Must Stop Now"

Call for Normalization of Personnel Administration

Park Sugi, a member of the Gwangju Metropolitan Council, urged the normalization of personnel administration at the Gwangju Metropolitan Office of Education.

On the 14th, during a 5-minute speech at the 2nd plenary session of the 1st regular meeting of the 317th assembly, Councilor Park demanded that the Gwangju Metropolitan Office of Education actively take charge of management and supervision related to disciplinary actions in private schools and dispel concerns about personnel disruptions during Superintendent Lee Jeongseon's first year in office.

Park Sugi, Gwangju Metropolitan City Council Member.

The controversy pointed out concerns over the Gwangju Metropolitan Office of Education's Teacher Training Committee approving principal qualifications last February for individuals who had previously been deemed unqualified as principals due to disciplinary requests in two separate committee meetings the previous year, allowing them to officially assume principal positions.

Councilor Park stated, “One of the teachers who assumed the principal position at the high school after obtaining principal qualifications was a key teacher who received a severe disciplinary action in July 2019 for the A High School exam question leak incident. The disciplinary request remains unchanged, so how can they be promoted instead of disciplined within just one year?” He criticized the passive attitude of the Metropolitan Office of Education for failing to enforce disciplinary requests for over three years, only collecting fines under the Private School Act, without further management, supervision, or administrative measures.

According to a special audit of A High School at the time, it was confirmed that a high-difficulty math exam question was taken from handouts distributed in advance to a specific club. The investigation revealed special management of top-ranking students, unfair curriculum operation focused on university entrance exams, and poor management of the university entrance principal recommendation system. This large-scale academic corruption case in a private school led to demands for severe disciplinary actions including dismissal of the principal and removal of the vice principal, as well as disciplinary and administrative actions against 48 related teachers.

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