"Wrote a resignation letter four days before her death?"... School principal who tampered with documents for unconscious teacher was eventually caught

[Financial News] In connection with the death of a teacher in her 20s at a private kindergarten in Bucheon, Gyeonggi Province, who kept going to work despite flu symptoms and a high fever, it has been revealed that the kindergarten principal tried to avoid responsibility by forging the deceased teacher's resignation letter. Education authorities have formally requested that the principal be disciplined severely.
According to the 'audit results on the deceased teacher at the Bucheon private kindergarten' obtained on the 9th by the office of Rep. Gang Gyeong-suk of the Rebuilding Korea Party, a member of the National Assembly Education Committee, the Bucheon Office of Education audited principal A, who ran the kindergarten where the deceased teacher B worked, and requested that the Gyeonggi-do Office of Education impose 'severe disciplinary action.'
During the audit, which began on March 25, the Bucheon Office of Education focused on whether principal A had improperly restricted B's use of sick leave and other leave, and whether A forged and submitted a resignation letter before and after B's death.
The details of the case were shocking and tragic. Although teacher B was diagnosed with influenza type B on January 27, she reportedly continued to go to work for three days and cared for the children, apparently under pressure from the kindergarten or because of its working conditions. Her condition then rapidly worsened. She was rushed to the intensive care unit for treatment, but died on February 14.
Even more disturbing was principal A's response after the fact. A is accused of forging a resignation letter dated February 10, four days before B's death, and submitting it to the Bucheon Office of Education as if B had quit the kindergarten. Investigators found that on the day the resignation letter was supposedly written, B was unconscious or in critical condition in the ICU and clearly unable to write one.
Police had already booked A without detention in May on charges of forging and using private documents, and later sent the case to prosecutors. The kindergarten is now facing criticism not only for allowing the teacher's illness to go untreated until it led to her death, but also for manipulating a resignation letter used in official administrative procedures in an apparent attempt to shift responsibility.
An official from the Bucheon Office of Education said, "The authority to discipline a private kindergarten principal requires a request for deliberation through the Gyeonggi-do Office of Education's teacher personnel division, so we have requested disciplinary action. However, because legal procedures are still under way, we cannot disclose the specific details of the audit."
moon@fnnews.com Moon Young-jin Reporter