Recently, a teacher who had been convicted of illegally taking photos of women’s bodies in the past was found to have been appointed and employed in a foreign educational institution in a Free Economic Zone.
It is pointed out that the current Educational Officials Act, the Private School Act, etc., prohibit the appointment of teaching staff who have committed sex crimes but foreign educational institutions established and operated in Free Economic Zones and Jeju Free International City are not subject to such Acts and, thus, are in a blind area.
Therefore, requiring the foreign educational institutions established by foreign educational foundations to stipulate grounds for disqualification and mandatory retirement so that a teacher who committed a sex crime shall not be appointed, the amendment aims to allow the foreign educational institutions to restrict the new appointment of a teacher who has committed a sex crime and to cause him/her to be removed from their position if currently employed (Article 8-2 and Article 8-3 newly inserted).

Article 8-2 (Grounds for Disqualification of Teaching Staff) The head of a foreign educational institution shall not appoint anyone as a teacher, in whose case a sentence of punishment or medical treatment and custody has been imposed and becomes definitive (including a person in whose case the suspension of execution of a sentence is imposed and the suspension period has elapsed) due to an act falling under any of the following:
1. A sexual crime committed under Article 2 of the Act on Special Cases Concerning the Punishment, Etc. of Sexual Crimes
2. A sex offense committed against children or juveniles under Article 2, subparagraph 2 of the Act on the Protection of Children and Youth against Sex Offenses