Elementary school teacher suspended for drug use, avoids heavy punishment

By Park Si-soo

An elementary school teacher was suspended for a month for a drug offense, an education office governing North Chungcheong Province said on Tuesday.

The teacher was among 10 public officers caught taking illegal drugs, it said. The office’s disciplinary committee imposed the penalty.

The prosecution looked into the case and decided not to send him to trial because it was his first drug offense and the dose he took was small.