S. Korean Legislators Passed the Higher Education Act to Help PT Lecturers—PTers Union Alleges 20K Lost Jobs

However, considering the decrease in the number of both overall and small-sized classes in the first semester, a large number of part-time lecturers could have been fired or at least had the number of their lectures cut. The Korean Irregular Professors Union (KIPU) claims that nearly 20,000 lecturers have been fired.