The story of trying to get rid of the practice of putting a picture of a teacher in a school graduation album came from the field of education.

Recently, it became known that the operator of the Telegram'Parkbang' stalked a high school teacher for 7 years and mocked the murder of a child. In the teaching profession, anxiety about portrait rights and infringement of personal information increased. As a result, the Seoul Teachers' Union announced today (5th) the results of a survey conducted by teachers across the country, pointing out that realistic solutions such as simplifying graduation albums are needed.


According to an online survey conducted by 8,000 teachers in April, 70.6% said they were concerned that their photos in their graduation albums would be abused for serious crimes or criticisms such as stalking and fraud. About 40% of respondents said they had suffered damages related to actual graduation albums or heard stories of other teachers.

In the case of victims, when parents bought a school graduation album because they wanted to see the face of a new teacher who moved to school, when the parent group chat room had a teacher's picture and reputation, a person who didn't know called a student uncle and called to meet, Malicious theft and synthesis.


In order to solve the problem, 70% (multiple responses) indicated that teachers should minimize the posting of teacher photos, and half of the respondents said that it is desirable not to produce a graduation album at all.

"Those teachers have been unable to challenge even if there are problems such as dissemination of teacher photos among parents, but the so-called "Parkbang" incident has brought about the seriousness of online crimes, and the need for change is felt." "It's time for the graduation album to change as it becomes a social environment where personal information is easily misused."

This is'News Pick'.

(Photo = Seoul Teachers' Union)