Gyeonggi Office of Education suspends kindergarten director for 2 months over 'flu-related death of teacher on the way to work'

Violation of duty of good faith applies... Rep. Kang Kyeong-sook "Punishment with a cotton bat, special audit must be re-implemented"

(Bucheon = Yonhap News) Reporter Hwang Jeong-hwan = It was confirmed that the head of a private kindergarten in Bucheon, Gyeonggi Province, died while suffering from a high fever due to the flu while continuing to work and died, which is a severe disciplinary action.

According to data received from the Ministry of Education by Kang Kyung-sook, a member of the National Assembly's Education Committee, on the 11th, the Gyeonggi Provincial Office of Education held a disciplinary committee meeting last August and decided to suspend Mr. A, the director of the kindergarten attended by the deceased teacher in his 20s, for two months.

The educational authorities judged that Mr. A's actions of forging and using the resignation letter of the deceased teacher B and neglecting service management measures violated the duty of good faith under Article 58 of the National Civil Service Act.

Previously, the Bucheon Office of Education conducted an audit of Mr. A and requested severe disciplinary action from the Gyeonggi Provincial Office of Education.

Rep. Kang Kyeong-sook said, "The deceased died unfairly as he went to work in murderous pain due to a high fever of 39.8 degrees, and the punishment was nothing more than a soft bat. The education authorities must conduct a special audit again and firmly establish a system to prevent recurrence."

Separately, Mr. A was indicted without detention last August on charges of forging and using private documents.

The Public Prosecution Office (the prosecution at the time) sentenced Mr. A to six months in prison at a decision hearing held on the 15th of last month.

The first trial sentencing hearing is scheduled to be held at the Bucheon Branch of the Incheon District Court on the 29th.

Mr. A is accused of forging Mr. B's resignation letter and submitting it to the Bucheon Office of Education.

The date of resignation written in this resignation letter was February 10th, four days before Mr. B died. At the time, it was found that Mr. B was in the intensive care unit and was unable to write the resignation letter.

Mr. B went to work for three days after being diagnosed with type B influenza on January 27, but his symptoms worsened and he died on February 14 while receiving treatment at the hospital.