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Recently, as the purchase of luxury goods has become popular among teenagers, a new type of school violence through this is raising their heads.



It is a behavior of exploiting luxury goods for extortion of money, as the purchase of luxury goods spreads among teenagers, centering on teenage YouTubers, and can be easily resold on online used trading sites.



Teenagers are not yet aware of the seriousness of this behavior, but it is pointed out that it is a crime at the level of criminal punishment beyond simple school violence.



Group A, a high school student in Seoul, bought a luxury wallet from his parents for several weeks.



However, I started to get pressure from'Iljin' friends who saw this wallet, saying, "If you have such a lot of money, please give me pocket money."



If they did not respond, they both harassed or ostracized Army A.



Eventually, he stole A's smartphone, saying, "Sell your wallet, eat delicious food, and reconcile," and he took the money after selling luxury wallets through a used trading site.



High school girl B, living in Incheon, also received a request from the Iljin group, who usually harassed her, to "sell the expensive things you have and bring the money for sale."



The purpose was to get rid of the purchase cost by saying that he did not have a laptop PC to take online classes at his home.



One youth counselor said, "There is an increasing increase in school violence in which the perpetrators do not directly extort luxury goods in order not to leave evidence, but force victims to sell them and then take them."



According to the Open Medical Association, two to three cases of school violence counseling related to luxury goods have been received steadily every week.



An official from the medical association said, "Because luxury goods are expensive, the amount of financial damage to students is large." "There is no recognition that extortion through luxury goods is school violence. I hesitate to tell me."



School violence perpetrators steal money by forcibly selling their own'fake' luxury goods to victims to buy luxury goods.



This process is accompanied by assault and intimidation.



In response, an official from a police station in Seoul said, "Even if it is something that youths do at school, the general criminal law applies the same," and "can be punished."



Another police official said, "If you are forced to dispose of property by means of assault or intimidation, a crime of coercion can result, and if you take the money arising from this, you may be charged with blackmail. "I said.



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