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famous volleyball player and Internet broadcaster who complained of suffering from malicious comments took their own lives a few days ago.

Relevant measures have been taken to prevent such malicious slander and harassment online, but the situation has not improved and there is no proper law to punish. 



Reporter Shin Jeong-eun covered it.



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"It's hard to endure. Please stop now."



It was malicious comments, so-called 'malicious comments', that tormented professional volleyball player Kim In-hyuk, who turned his back on the world last week.



The malicious comments that Kim personally revealed were speculations and personal attacks that had nothing to do with performance.



It was also belatedly known that an Internet broadcaster recently died from depression due to online bullying.



[Internet Broadcaster Mr. A: You framed yourself because you just wanted to harass me.]



The comment window for entertainment and sports articles on domestic portal sites to prevent malicious comments disappeared, but the attacks of malicious commenters have become more sophisticated.



They send malicious messages directly to celebrities through their social media accounts.



[Entertainment agency official: Malicious messages do not only come from specific events or issues.

People who are just routinely called 'anti-fans' spend every minute, every day, every now and then.

hit directly.

mentally.

It seems like the whole world is cursing me.]



Most of these SNS accounts have servers in foreign countries, so they run into difficulties from tracking the perpetrators.



In addition, since messages are exchanged between individuals, it is difficult to apply a charge of defamation or insult, which requires that it be able to spread to other people.



The malicious commenters know this and are taking advantage of it.



Although bills to eradicate Internet bullying continue to be proposed, it is insufficient to respond to Internet bullying, which is being transformed to fit the media environment.



[Choi Jin-woong / Legislative Investigator of the National Assembly: Legally, an individual has to send (punishment) repeatedly, so in fact, the legal principle cannot follow the damage relief…

.]



In line with the seriousness of the problem that Internet bullying can lead to the death of an individual, it is necessary to establish a strict basis for punishment.



(Video coverage: Munsan Bae, Video editing: Min-gyu Jeon)



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