Submitted:
22 November 2025
Posted:
24 November 2025
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Abstract
In July 2023, the suicide of a Seoi Elementary School teacher spurred nationwide outrage and a grassroots teacher movement in South Korea. Central to this was Indischool, the country’s largest online teacher community for elementary teachers, which became a hub for protests, collective grief, and professional solidarity. Using digital ethnography, this study examines how Indischool fostered collective resistance and agency, contesting legal and institutional constraints on teachers. Framed through Durkheim’s suicide typology, the Seoi incident is interpreted as a systemic failure from excessive regulation and weak integration, contributing to scholarship on digital counterpublics and teacher activism.
Keywords:
Online teacher community
; Indischool
; collective teacher resistance
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