Well, this is rich, considering the same union wants sex offender teachers to keep their jobs.

On October 25 the Gangwon-do section of the Korean Teachers’ and Education Workers’ Union reported to the Office of Education that “an elementary school principal in Injae-gun forced a female teacher to drink with him and insulted her,” and requested the principal be fired.

The Gangwon-do section of the union held a press conference at the Gangwon-do Office of Education and announced, “at approximately 9pm on October 26 of last year the principal of an elementary school in Injae-gun was drunken and called two unmarried female teachers to the school and demanded they drink with him, and when they refused he verbally abused them.”

The union added that on October 4 last he said to one of the teachers “get out of here,” and “you ××, I’m going to kill you today,” and threw her cellphone, actions unbecoming of a school principal.

The union demanded that “because these actions cannot be forgiven coming from an educator… this educationally unqualified principal should be fired and measures put in place to prevent future problems.”

Six female teachers at the school brought to the provincial Office of Education a petition for the principal to be punished along with a handwritten testimonial of the affected teachers. That afternoon the Injae Office of Education sent the superintendant of schools to open an investigation.

A member of the Injae Office of Education said, “we have heard the teacher’s side of the story, and have confirmed that the principal apologized for the verbal abuse on the 4th… we will take disciplinary action based on the results of the provincial office’s investigation.”

The Kyunghyang Shinmun received no reply to its repeated attempts to contact the school for the principal’s version of events.