China News Service, February 18th. According to a report from South Korea’s "Joongang Ilbo" on the 16th, the twin sisters of South Korean female professional volleyball players Lee Jae-young and Lee Da-young were exposed to a campus bullying scandal, bringing the topic of “violent bullying” into the People look away.
However, it is understood that athletes are still constantly threatened with violence in front-line schools, and even some victims think that the existence of such bullying is normal.
Li Zaiying and Li Doying have played as the main national team in the 2019 World Volleyball League, Tokyo Olympic qualifiers and Asian regional qualifiers finals, and have performed well.
Recently, the two were suspected of campus violence and claimed to have been victims of campus bullying by the two sisters during school. They uploaded articles on the Internet, causing concern.
At present, the two have been deprived of their national team qualifications indefinitely.
The National Human Rights Commission of South Korea conducted a human rights survey of 63,211 elementary, middle and high school students and athletes nationwide in 2019. 14.7% of the respondents (8440 people) said they had experienced physical violence by coaches or seniors, 15.7% (9035 people) ) Has suffered verbal violence such as insults and threats.
Among the student athletes in elementary, junior high and high schools, elementary school students suffer the most from language violence, while physical violence increases with the rise of grades. High school students suffer the most physical violence.
Moreover, many students choose to deal with their experiences negatively because they are worried about retaliation or because they don't know how to respond.
The survey results show that among student athletes who have experienced physical violence, 79.6% of the respondents (4898 people) have never informed the people around them about the situation. Most of the reasons are "worry about retaliation" (24.5%) or "do not know what to do" How to respond" (13%).
Victims who had suffered violent bullying by Lee Jae Young and Lee Da Young also said, “It’s been ten years, I wanted to forget about these and continue to live”, “But by chance, recalling the experience at that time, in order to review my own life, I decided Show courage,” and it took many years to stand up and expose the fact that he was violently bullied.
Jeong Hye-won, a research committee member of the Gyeonggi-do Women’s Family Foundation, said, “In the school sports team, the older and younger generations live together and train together. It is easy to be assimilated by this violent culture and become perpetrators of violent behavior in the future. The socialization cycle".
In fact, the results of a comprehensive survey conducted by the Human Rights Commission showed that when elementary school athletes were asked about their mood after experiencing physical violence, 38.7% of the respondents (898 people) said that they “think they need to work harder”.
Regarding this result, the Human Rights Commission stated that “in the daily culture of violence, athletes have developed a fixed notion that violent beating and scolding is a compulsory course for sports training and performance improvement since elementary school.” Internalization leads to the continuous reproduction of a culture of violence in sports organizations, forming a vicious circle."
A male high school baseball player in South Korea stated in a survey that “athletes have to be beaten if they want to achieve results, otherwise it is difficult to improve”.
A junior high school male archery athlete said, "The seniors do this, and it is our turn to naturally become like this. Athletes have to be beaten more to get their spirits up."
Experts pointed out that in order to eradicate the violent culture in sports, the sports culture centered on elite athletes should be changed first.
Zheng Rongzhe, a professor at the Graduate School of Education of Sojiang University, said, “No matter how inhumane behavior is, as long as you have good results in the competition, you can be forgiven; as long as you can get a gold medal, you can get an innocence for all your evil deeds. The old habit of this kind of elite sports has continued to this day.” “Athletes need to look at the faces of elite athletes in the team, and instructors acquiesce in various violent bullying behaviors. This situation is widespread, and what is exploding now is just the tip of the iceberg.”
Zheng Huiyuan said, “The characteristics of the collective organization of the school sports team can easily form a collective culture of class hierarchy, power control and obedience like the army.” “To create a safe and equal sports environment is inseparable from the efforts of the coaches. We need to teach the coaches. Rational education method".