South Korean parents are unhappy: you can't hit your children (7 photos)

Strict Asian parents with high demands have already become a parable. This is not because they are evil, but because they realize how competitive the world is, and in order to succeed, their child must be the best.





There is a way out! Let the children beat each other themselves!

In many Asian countries, such as China or South Korea, the foundations of "spare the rod, spoil the child" are still very strong.

There is an interesting statistic from South Korea: reports of child abuse in the country, including neglect, emotional abuse along with physical or sexual abuse, increased more than tenfold between 2001 and 2017. Which amounted to 22,386 cases. In 77% of cases, the abuse is committed by the parents of the victims.



A popular punishment in Asia, or holding buckets of water. This is still physical abuse

I suspect that they simply expanded the scope of what should be understood as child abuse. Perhaps spanking as a punishment was not taken into account before, but now it is, hence the tenfold increase.

And parents in South Korea are simply enraged by this! After all, the requirements are still there: the child must study well, be obedient, not disgrace themselves in front of the neighbors. How to influence a naughty child?

The law that it is allowed to beat children





Have you seen our sports coaches? In China they are just beasts!

An interesting law has been in effect in South Korea since 1960. According to it, parents were given the right to physically punish their children. More precisely, it sounded like "the right to disciplinary action", which was interpreted as the ability to give a slap.

In 2021, this line was removed from the law, and parents are at a loss.



A Korean family when an inspector from the guardianship service came

After all, corporal punishment was abolished in schools only 10 years earlier, in 2010. Nevertheless, according to a recent survey, at least 76.8% of adult South Koreans believed that corporal punishment was necessary to discipline children.

- And how should I raise them? Then I will sign a contract with them that I can beat them. Otherwise, I will refuse to feed them or pay for their education if they do not listen, said Lee Kyung-ja, the head of a conservative parents' group. And she has thousands of followers across the country.

Why do Koreans have to beat their children like that!?



A joke about Asian parents: Mom, I have hepatitis B. Why not A!?!?

Not only Koreans, but everywhere where very high standards are applied to teenagers. When you have to do something very difficult or requiring willpower (like studying for 12 hours straight), it is very difficult for a child to overcome his nature.

But the threat of getting a spanking serves as an "external incentive", thereby cultivating the will to sit and study.



Nobody wants to study in South Korea, not even the Koreans themselves

Life in South Korea from childhood is an existence in an education system focused on pressure. The structure of society is terribly hierarchical, and there are few ways to get up. According to global studies, children in South Korea are some of the most unhappy in the world, although they live in a technologically developed country.

It is logical that some Vietnamese children are much happier, who can run barefoot in the rain after school.

Everyone is puzzled now

China values ​​children very much now, because there are fewer of them. And still, grandparents do not understand how to raise children without a rod. How else will children understand that they are behaving very badly?



And these are children from North Korea. What kind of competition is this? I don’t know...

In China, harsh disciplinary measures are seen as simply a way to make a child obedient.

On the other hand, Nepal and Mongolia are the only Asian countries that have completely banned corporal punishment in all its forms. But, frankly, they have a completely different society - not rich, but more free and open.