If the primary school teacher exposed to the violence and parental violence of the student had depressive disorder, the court judged that the government should acknowledge the disaster.

According to the legal community, Judge Seong-Yul Lee, the 11th administrator of the Seoul Administrative Court, ruled as a plaintiff in a lawsuit filed by a female teacher, Mr. A, to approve a public service for civil servants.

In June 2018, A, a third-year homeroom teacher at an elementary school in Daegu, stopped a student who was trying to take a notebook from his desk.

Then the student hit Mr. A's arm about 5 times.

Shocked by this, Mr. A called the student's mother to ask for family guidance.

However, this student's father called Ms. A again and shouted, saying, "Isn't it because the teacher did something wrong with the child?"

A, who was diagnosed with acute stress response and anxiety and depressive disorder due to this, filed a lawsuit when he applied for medical care for public service but was not accepted.

The court said, "A valid cause-and-effect relationship between public affairs and disease is recognized."

The judge said, "The situation in which an elementary school third grader was assaulted and the parents protested with anger afterwards would have been a very shocking experience for the teacher, Mr. A." "I said.

On the medical record, Mr. A had never complained of stress caused by personal factors not related to his teaching career, and the symptoms were severe after this incident.