Despite the legality of corporal punishment, it is still used in schools. A couple of weeks ago the Digital Chosunilbo ran a piece on one case that went too far and was captured on video:
The video and accompanying news article has made it's way around the Korean internet; waygook.org has a nice thread on the incident, but Gust of Popular Feeling (which also gave us the brilliant A brief history of scapegoating English teachers in Korea) has a nice history of Kamera Kaptured Korean Korporal Kunishment.
