One of many victims have been pressured to drink urine.
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Tune Hye Kyo‘s most up-to-date hit, The Glory, has taken the globe by storm with simply the primary half of the present. The story revolves round a sufferer of college violence who grows as much as search revenge. In comparison with normal Ok-Dramas, The Glory depicts the brutality of college bullying in South Korea far more graphically, to the purpose the place some viewers have been confused if it was practical or exaggerated. However in accordance to a college commissioner, it’s normally worse.
MBC Radio‘s program Information Excessive Kick lately had Choi Woo Sung as a visitor. Choi is a college commissioner on the Gyeonggi Suwon Workplace of Training, and he supervises instances associated to highschool violence. On the present, he was requested if the scene the place Moon Dong Eun’s bullies torture her with a sizzling curling iron is practical. Choi replied, “The truth is even worse.”
Beforehand, the identical scene had induced an uproar in South Korean web boards after folks rediscovered that the scene was doubtlessly impressed by an actual bullying case.
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However Choi provided one other reference that was very near the violence depicted in The Glory. In 2006, it was reported {that a} group of scholars at a center college in Cheongju assaulted a pupil for round 20 days straight. The group, led by Kim, a 15-year-old at the moment, had crushed the sufferer “A” with a baseball bat, burned her arm a hair iron contained in the classroom, and scrathed her chest with a clothespin.
At the moment, the sufferer suffered extreme burns and a protruding tailbone. She required 5 to six weeks of hospitalization…The perpetrators additionally confessed that they’d punished the sufferer by ripping off the scabs that had fashioned on her scars with their fingernails.
—Choi Woo Tune, MBC Radio
Choi identified a number of different instances of violence involving minors. The Yangsan Ladies’ Center Faculty Assault Case that occurred in 2021 concerned a international pupil who was assaulted by a bunch of center schoolers. The perpetrators had recorded the assault and distributed it on web boards.
Within the Cheonghak-dong Dormitory Cruelty Case (2020), the sufferer was pressured by a bunch of women to drink urine after they’d inserted international objects into her physique. The North Gyeonggi’s Snow Mattress Sexual Assault Case (2022) is the newest incident of such type that left the nation in shock. A 12-year-old boy sexually assaulted a 9-year-old lady on a block of snow he had made to appear to be a mattress.
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Commissioner Choi then expressed his deep remorse over the truth that many of the perpetrators have been under the age of 14, which allowed them the safety of legislation. In most college violence instances, the perpetrators get to take pleasure in authorized safety as a result of they’re thought of “juvenile delinquents.” The time period refers to kids between the ages of 10 to 14 who dedicated crimes however are topic to safety. They’re sentenced evenly with neighborhood service or juvenile detention as a substitute of felony punishment.
In all three instances, a number of the perpetrators or the entire perpetrators have been juveniles below the age of 14, so there was a restrict to punishing them…I agree that the usual age limits ought to be step by step lowered as (the perpetrators) are getting youthful and their crimes are extra subtle and violent…On the identical time, as a society our efforts have to edify and stop such incidents from taking place within the first place.
—Choi Woo Tune, MBC Radio
In December final 12 months, the South Korean authorities handed a invoice to deliver down the higher age restrict from 14 to 13 within the Juvenile Justice, And Delinquency Prevention Act.
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