By Bahk Eun-ji
More than six out of every 10 cases of sexual violence against graduate school students are committed by their professors, a survey showed, Tuesday.
According to the survey of 83 male and 230 female graduate school students at Kyung Hee University conducted by the school's student counselling center from December to January, 24.3 percent, or 76 respondents, said they experienced sexual harassment or assault during their coursework.
Among the respondents who experienced sexual harassment or assault, 65.5 percent, or 36, said the perpetrators were their professors, while 21.8 percent, or 12, pointed to senior or junior students.
Thirty-one, or 40.8 percent of such cases, involved sexually-harassing remarks made during classes, while in 26 cases, the students reported finding themselves in forced drinking situations with, or being pressed to pour drinks, for the perpetrators.
All respondents said they felt insulted or ashamed after experiencing sexual harassment. But most of them did not make official reports over fears of retaliation or no positive outcome.
The university sent the survey result to faculty members and professors and said it is difficult for graduate students to sound an alarm when they experience sexual harassment from professors, because the teachers are closely tied in with their studies and career paths after graduation.
The survey was conducted after a professor at the school raped a graduate student in March last year. The professor was later arrested.
More than six out of every 10 cases of sexual violence against graduate school students are committed by their professors, a survey showed, Tuesday.
According to the survey of 83 male and 230 female graduate school students at Kyung Hee University conducted by the school's student counselling center from December to January, 24.3 percent, or 76 respondents, said they experienced sexual harassment or assault during their coursework.
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Thirty-one, or 40.8 percent of such cases, involved sexually-harassing remarks made during classes, while in 26 cases, the students reported finding themselves in forced drinking situations with, or being pressed to pour drinks, for the perpetrators.
All respondents said they felt insulted or ashamed after experiencing sexual harassment. But most of them did not make official reports over fears of retaliation or no positive outcome.
The university sent the survey result to faculty members and professors and said it is difficult for graduate students to sound an alarm when they experience sexual harassment from professors, because the teachers are closely tied in with their studies and career paths after graduation.
The survey was conducted after a professor at the school raped a graduate student in March last year. The professor was later arrested.
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