Students are issuing complaints over Korea University (KU)’s inconstant approach regarding the education of students with the coronavirus disease (COVID-19).  The school has formerly issued a set of guidelines delineating school protocol in case of outbreaks, guaranteeing that those infected would be provided with adequate online options for class participation. Students point out, however, that such online options are often insufficient for full comprehension of class material.

Many classes are providing voice recordings of offline lectures as supplementary material, yet fail to account for the usage of whiteboards. Some infected students have complained that they have not received any additional material and are expected to fend for themselves in catching up with their classmates. Such discrepancies occur because the manner in which online alternatives are conducted is entirely dependent on the unregulated discretion of individual lecturers.

A third-year student of KU, who requested anonymity, spoke of their experiences. “One [of my in-person classes] allows students to join the class through Zoom. … The professor barely interacts with students on Zoom. Another class provides a recording of classes, but the video has significant audio and video quality problems. The professor spends most of his lecture drawing on the whiteboard, yet the video barely captures half of what he's drawing or writing.”