"School violence" refers to actions committed against students inside or outside of school premises resulting in physical or mental injury, or damage to property through battery, assault, confinement, threats, kidnapping, abduction, defamation, insult, extortion, coercion, forced errand, sexual violence, bullying, or cyber-bullying, or with obscene or violent information via an information and communications network.
The term “bullying” refers to any form of constant or repeated actions whereby at least two students inflict physical or emotional harm on a specific student or a specific group of students inside or outside of school premises, and then inflict pain thereon.
The term “cyber-bullying” refers to any form of constant or repeated actions whereby students inflict emotional harm on other students by using the Internet, cell phones or other information and communications devices to reveal personal information about a specific student or to spread lies or rumors about a specific student, and then inflict pain thereon.
The term "school" refers to an elementary school, a middle school, a high school, a special school.
The term "aggressor student" refers to a student who commits school violence or who takes part in such violence with other aggressors.
The term "victim student" refers to a student who has sustained an injury (whether mental or physical) resulting from school violence.
The term "disabled student" refers to a student requiring special education as stipulated in Article 15 of the Act on Special Education for Disabled Persons, etc. due to a physical, mental, or intellectual impairment.

Countermeasures against Aggressor Students

An autonomous committee shall request that the head of a school take at least one of the following actions (or several concurrent measures) against an aggressor student in order to protect a victim student or to educate the aggressor student regarding the unacceptability of his/her actions .
1. Order the aggressor student(s) to give a written apology to the victim student;
2. Prohibit the aggressor student(s) from making contact with, threatening, or retaliating against a victim student or any student who has reported to an authority figure the occurrence of school violence;
3. Require the aggressor student(s) to perform service to the school;
4. Require the aggressor student(s) to perform service to society;
5. Require the aggressor student(s) to complete a course related to the school violence or receive psychological treatment from an internal or external expert;
6. Suspend the aggressor student(s);
7. Change the aggressor student(s) class(es);
8. Transfer the aggressor student(s) to another school;
9. Expel the aggressor student(s) from the school.

Victim students

If a victim student or his/her guardian wishes to appeal actions taken by an autonomous committee or the head of a school, he/she shall file an appeal with the competent city/province mediation committee for disciplinary punishment of students within 15 days from the date such actions are taken, or within ten days from the date he/she becomes aware that such actions have been taken.

Aggressor students

If an aggressor student or his/her guardian wishes to appeal actions taken by an autonomous committee or head of a school, he/she shall file an appeal with the competent city/province mediation committee for disciplinary punishment of students within 15 days from the date such measures were imposed on the aggressor student(s), or within ten days from the date he/she becomes aware of the imposition of such actions.
Victim students or aggressor students (or their legal guardians) who are dissatisfied with a decision made by the regional committee may file an administrative appeal within 60 days from the date he/she is notified of such decision.