China News Service, March 26 (Liu Cong) Helped the whole class to run errands to buy snacks, locked in the toilet, forced to finish a table of fast food, being splashed with paint... these campus bullying scenes that appear in Korean dramas are always It can arouse the anger of the audience.

However, what makes people shudder is that the plot comes from reality, and this scene really exists in Korean campuses.

　　Recently, in South Korea’s sports and entertainment circles, where the incidence of campus violence is relatively high, many people have been exposed to campus bullying incidents, bringing this chronic disease in South Korea into people’s horizons again.

Data map: Korean students are preparing to enter the campus for classes.

A "knife" stuck in the chest

Leave a lifetime pain

　　School violence and bullying have always been unsolved problems in South Korea, and a series of related scandals have been exposed and aroused public debate.

First, the twin sisters of Korean female professional volleyball players Lee Jae Young and Lee Da Young were exposed to campus bullying scandals and were deprived of their national team qualifications indefinitely. Later, male volleyball player Park Sang Ha admitted to bullying others during his school days and announced his retirement.

　　Subsequently, the Korean entertainment industry was exposed to similar incidents.

Actor Kim Ji-soo, actress Park Hye-soo, idol group StrayKids member Huang Hyun-chen, (G)I-DLE member Seo Suizhen, etc., have been exposed to bullying at school.

The accusations of these polite and respectful artists in front of the camera include cutting classmates’ hair, forcing classmates to eat food preservatives, throwing classmates’ schoolbags from the 10th floor, insulting female classmates with swearing, and extorting money, etc., which are surprising.

　　Among them, some admitted to the violence and came forward to apologize, saying that they would reflect on it; others firmly denied that they would take legal measures to protect their rights.

Among them, after Xu Suizhen was accused of bullying by seven people one after another, she still expressed her position to deny it.

South Korean actor Seo Shin-ae posted on social media that he had been bullied on campus.

Image source: Screenshot of Xu Xinai's personal social media account.

　　On March 26, South Korean actor Xu Xinai posted a post on personal social media confirming that he had been bullied by Xu Suizhen during his middle school years.

She wrote: "Ten years ago, I was a young and courageous person. If I face it with fear and hesitation this time, I will feel disappointed and regretful for myself in the future."

　　She said that in the middle school years, Xu Suizhen and other classmates carried out unfounded personal attacks such as "How can I become an artist like this?", "I'm just a violent artist", "It's only natural to be bullied in this way" and other unfounded personal attacks. .

　　Xu Xinai said that his classmates might just say something casually out of suspicion, but the trauma they caused has been left to the present.

She said that Xu Suizhen made her understand that in addition to physical injuries, the mental violence encountered in her school days will also leave a person with a lifetime of pain.

　　After the campus bullying behavior was exposed, Xu Suizhen has repeatedly stated publicly that she "never talked to Xu Xinai" when she was in school. Xu Xin loves to call this a fact because what Xu Suizhen did to her was "only a unilateral insult."

　　According to a school violence survey released by South Korea on March 26, out of 5,244 adult male and female respondents, 1 in 4 (24.3%) said that “I have suffered campus bullying”.

In the survey, 87.3% of people said that campus bullying caused them mental losses, and 55.2% said that they had suffered physical losses.

　　Luo Zhuyeon, a 22-year-old girl who has been squeezed out in middle school, compares campus bullying to a "knife."

Although Korean schools were strengthening the school violence-related systems while she was in school, for her, these systems did not substantially help.

Luo Zhuyan said that after many years, she could "unplug the knife inserted in her chest, and now the wound seems to be healing."

Types of victims of campus bullying in South Korea.

Picture source: South Korea's "Joongang Ilbo"

Victims have difficulty talking during school

It is difficult for the offenders to be punished after graduation

　　However, the survey found that the more frightening point is that more than half (51.1%) of the interviewees said that they did not tell people around or ask for help about the bullying.

　　In addition, 89.2% of people think that the problem of school violence in South Korea is very serious. At the same time, 7 out of 10 people pointed out that "the punishment system is lax."

　　Many people who have suffered bullying on campus say that they fail to report the situation to others or seek help in a timely manner.

They are afraid of being known by their classmates, or think that the teachers' handling methods are not helpful, and some shrink back because they think that the perpetrators will get worse when they are punished.

　　However, recently many victims of school bullying in South Korea have gone to receive legal advice.

Although they have graduated a long time ago, they said they wanted to use legal means to find “justice” for the injuries suffered in those years.

However, the judiciary generally believes that "if you have graduated, it is actually difficult to punish the perpetrator."

Data map: A school in South Korea, students queuing for temperature testing.

　　South Korea’s "Joongang Daily" reported that group isolation is one of the typical campus bullying behaviors in South Korea. However, if the perpetrators did not inflict physical or verbal violence, as there are no relevant penalties in the criminal law, this type of bullying behavior is general. In other words, it will not become the target of criminal punishment.

According to South Korea's "School Bullying Prevention and Countermeasures Law", group isolation belongs to campus bullying.

From the perspective of the scope of punishment, the scope of punishment of the Ministry of Education is larger than the scope of criminal punishment.

　　Lawyer Han Areum, a former inspector of the Korean Ministry of Education, said, “Even if you are mentally injured because of isolation, it is often difficult to carry out criminal punishment. Only when the perpetrator is a student, can the School Violence Countermeasures Autonomous Committee be convened. ", "If the victim has not graduated, the abuser can be punished at any time whenever he is bullied. However, after graduation, he cannot take any measures against the offending students through the Education Department or the school."

　　According to the current Korean law, the statute of limitations for public prosecutions for crimes of violence and insult is 5 years.

In other words, five years from the day when the act of violence or abuse occurs, the perpetrator cannot be punished legally.

Even if the victim filed a civil lawsuit against the perpetrator and demanded compensation, if the two parties met for more than 3 years from the day they met, the statute of limitations has expired and no further litigation can be filed.

Based on this, the judiciary also concluded that "it is difficult to pass the law to rescue the victims of campus bullying once they graduate."

Data map: Seoul, South Korea, the examination room on the college entrance examination day.

South Korea’s social problems as the leading cause of school violence?

Surface response cannot cure chronic diseases

　　In an article in Singapore’s "Lianhe Zaobao" that analyzed the problem of school violence in South Korea, it revealed the causes of school violence in South Korea from several perspectives.

　　-Class system

　　The class system can be seen everywhere in Korean society, including schools, workplaces, and families. Young people must obey their elders and predecessors. Students in lower grades in schools are vulnerable to bullying by higher grade students.

In addition, Korean class division is also reflected in the identities of rich and poor. Students born in poverty may also be bullied by a group of "rich second generations".

　　-Judge people by their appearance

　　Korean society "appears first", appearance often becomes a factor of discrimination.

As in many Korean dramas, some students who are bullied will be ridiculed for their looks and figure, and will be further isolated.

　　-Family reasons

　　Many perpetrators of school violence are actually victims of domestic violence, putting the violence they endured on others.

At the same time, the parents of the victim neglected their children because they were busy with work. It was not until the misfortune happened that they knew that the children had experienced serious injuries.

And parents who spoil their children too much will also condone their children to become perpetrators of school violence.

　　The South Korean government has been working to solve the problem of school violence, but at present, the effect is insufficient.

　　Beginning in 2020, the Ministry of Education of South Korea established the "School Violence Countermeasures Committee" in the Education Support Agency under the National Education Agency, and abolished the "School Violence Committee" that was based on schools.

This initiative is aimed at addressing the problem of school violence that schools cannot solve, and is coordinated by the Education Department.

At the same time, the South Korean government is further promoting the improvement and formulation of relevant laws to prevent and reduce the occurrence of school violence.

　　But it is not enough to just try to solve the problem on the surface. The problem of school violence in South Korea has been repeatedly banned. The originally pure campus is performing despicable behaviors that hurt classmates in a "hidden corner."

Only by "prescribing the right medicine" based on the situation, can we effectively cure chronic diseases.

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