Park, a Gyeonggi Province teacher who asked to be identified only by his surname, has taught middle and high school students for six years. During that time, hate speech has become a regular part of his classroom, including remarks about the 2009 death of liberal former President Roh Moo-hyun. “Students often use expressions related to Roh's death in class and some even write such content in their assignments,” Park told The Korea Times. “These kids weren't even born during Roh's time, meaning they don't know much about his policies or failures.” Cases like Park's reflect a broader pattern emerging in Korean classrooms, where hate speech rooted in far-right rhetoric has crept into everyday student language, alarming teachers who say they are increasingly at a loss for how to respond. A survey by the Korean Teachers and Education Workers' Union, released Tuesday, found that 89.3 percent of 1,109 elementary, middle and high school teachers nationwide had witnessed or heard about students using hate speech, discrimination, historical distortion or anti-democratic expressions in the