University Instructor Who Penalized Students for Missing Reserve Forces Training 'No Prosecution'

The police have decided not to prosecute a university lecturer who was accused of disadvantaging a college student for missing class due to reserve forces training.

Seoul Dongdaemun Police Station.

On the 15th, the Dongdaemun Police Station in Seoul announced that it had decided not to prosecute Lee Mo, the chief researcher at the Foreign Language Education Center of Hankuk University of Foreign Studies Global Campus, who was accused of violating the Reserve Forces Act, citing 'no charges.'

Lee was accused of lowering the status of student A, who had the highest score, from 'top graduate' to 'excellent graduate' because A missed one class due to reserve forces training while Lee worked as a TOEIC basic class instructor after school from February to May. As a result, A received 70,000 won less in scholarship. An organization filed a complaint against Lee and the president of Hankuk University of Foreign Studies in June for violating the Reserve Forces Act.

The police judged that Lee's actions did not meet the elements of a crime because the current Reserve Forces Act stipulates that the person subject to punishment for disadvantaging students due to reserve forces training is the school principal. The Reserve Forces Act prohibits principals of schools at the high school level or above from marking absences or treating students unfavorably due to their mobilization or training as reserve forces members.

The police also decided not to prosecute the president of Hankuk University of Foreign Studies. They judged that the president fulfilled related obligations by continuously sending official letters from the beginning of the semester instructing not to treat students undergoing reserve forces training unfavorably and by directly chartering buses for students attending reserve forces training.

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