"Students Sneak into Faculty Office at Night to Retrieve Seized E-Cigarettes"

Hidden inside the school, breaking in after dark
Climbing through windows recorded and posted on SNS
Accurate investigation underway with the students involved

It was recently revealed that four middle school students in Ulsan secretly entered a locked teachers' office to retrieve confiscated electronic cigarettes.

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According to the Ulsan Metropolitan Office of Education on the 28th, four students from grades 1 to 3 at a middle school in Nam-gu, Ulsan, sneaked into the teachers' office around 8 p.m. on the 23rd, opened a teacher's desk drawer, and stole the confiscated electronic cigarettes along with 5,000 won in cash before fleeing.

To recover the electronic cigarettes that had been taken away by their supervising teacher a few days earlier, the students hid inside the school after classes ended and, once it got dark, climbed through a second-floor window of the teachers' office to get inside.

Although no one was in the teachers' office at the time, other staff members had not yet left on different floors, and the school security system had not yet been activated. During this, one of the students recorded the act of climbing through the window on video and posted it on social media (SNS). Another student who saw the video reported it to the school, leading to the incident being uncovered.

The school confirmed the incident on the 26th and is currently investigating the exact circumstances with the students involved.

The students broke into the teachers' office about ten days before their final exams.

The school confirmed that no exam papers had been leaked but, to ensure fairness in the exams, decided to retake the test questions with the teachers' consent. The education office stated, "This incident is considered an isolated act of misconduct by some students and is not related to any exam paper leaks," but added, "However, the school has taken a preemptive measure by deciding to retake the exam questions."

This is not the first time students have trespassed into a school.

Earlier, on the 20th, at a high school in Sangnok-gu, Ansan-si, Gyeonggi-do, a student identified as A, enraged after being told to bring their parents, secretly entered the school intending to set a fire.

Student A climbed over the closed school gate and entered the premises, then poured gasoline from a 1.25L PET bottle onto the wall near the first-floor entrance. Fortunately, the fire did not occur as the police arrived promptly after a report from a school administrator on duty, and A was arrested on the spot as a suspect.

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