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.
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Tags: Korean Council for University Education Korean Irregular Professors Union part-time faculty part-time lecturers South Korea
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