SEOUL - A law allowing South Korean parents to physically discipline their children is to be scrapped, the authorities said, prompting controversy in a country where hierarchical family values still dominate.
Reporting of child abuse - including neglect and emotional abuse as well as physical or sexual assaults - rose more than 10-fold between 2001 and 2017 to 22,386 cases, with 77 per cent of the perpetrators known to be the victims' parents.
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