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By Park Si-soo
An English camp organizer was ordered to pay 3 million won ($2,660) to a participant's parents for assigning "too many Koreans" to a classroom.
Seoul Central District Court recently made the ruling, saying the organizer ― a private English institute ― had neglected its contracted obligation only to have up to four Korean students in one classroom. The parents said there were "more than 10 Koreans in a classroom" when their child took the English camp on Guam in January 2018.
The institute denied this, claiming the students were taking a "level test" and were supposed to go to different classrooms, each with up to four Koreans. But the court didn't recognize this.
The plaintiff sought 10.58 million won in compensation, which included their personal cost to take their child to Guam and compensation for their mental agony. But the court only considered the child's registration fee and the parents' mental agony in setting compensation.
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