All daycare centers will be required to have CCTVs installed following child abuse cases

Following the recent daycare center child abuse cases which occurred in Incheon, South Korea lawmakers plan on passing a bill in February requiring all daycare centers to install surveillance cameras.

The bill will affect around 40,000 daycare centers in Korea starting March. Lawmakers say that this bill will ensure that daycare center teachers are properly monitored and reduce the cases of child abuse.

The bill will also improve daycare center employees' working conditions. On average, an employee works 9.3 hours per day and is paid 1.31 million won (approx. $1,200 USD) per month. Lawmakers say they will reduce their hours and increase their pay, saying this will also help prevent child abuse.

This bill will be addressing a recurrent problem that has been happening in Korea for a while. While one day care center teacher was caught tying a 4-year-old's wrists together in November, another forced his/her students to eat bugs, another threw a 2-year-old child to the ground repeatedly, and most recently, two different Incheon day care center teachers were caught on CCTV slapping or punching their students in the face.

While some day care center teachers believe the new bill will be violating their privacy, others don't mind the change. One day care center teacher stated,  "I don't want to hand over my privacy because another person at a different daycare center hit a kid," and another countered, "If you are just doing your job, you have nothing to worry about. Cameras are fine for me."