Kyungbok High School disciplines the student who made sexually harassing comments about aespa
The student of Kyungbok High School who caused the sexual harassment controversy has received punishment.
The student who posted on SNS photos and sexually harassing comments toward girl group aespa after they performed at Kyungbok High School has been disciplined by the school. Experts pointed out that preventive education should be provided to make teenagers be aware of sexual harassment on SNS as a digital crime.
According to a report by the Kyunghyang Shinmun on May 18th, the Life Education Committee of Kyungbok High School in Jongno-gu, Seoul held a meeting on May 12th and decided to discipline one student who posted photos and wrote sexually harassing comments about aespa on his personal SNS account for “violation of the school regulations”. An official from Kyungbok High School added, “We cannot reveal the disciplinary form to protect the student’s identity”, adding, “The student has deeply reflected on his wrongdoing. He said he posted them on his personal Instagram and did not know people would come to his account.”
After aespa finished their performance at Kyungbook High School on May 2nd, several photos of aespa members along with inappropriate comments, such as “Sex X” and “I did everything except touching them”, were posted on SNS, sparking controversies. At that time, some netizens even protected the perpetrators, saying, “He couldn’t even touch them. What’s the problem?”.
Lee Hyun-sook, representative of the sex counseling and sex education activist group for young people Taktin Tomorrow, said, “This incident shows that our society is encouraging the entertainment culture of ‘men can do this and that’ targetting women and allowing men to enjoy sexual harassing behaviors that consider women as tools”, adding, “In this case, it is necessary to give a social signal that these actions can also lead to crimes”. He added, “Entertainment culture that undermining human dignity and sexualizing women should be enhanced and students have to be educated to sympathize with the victims.”
Kyungbok High School plans to provide face-to-face sex education on gender sensitivity for all classes on the 27th in consultation with the Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education.
Source: Nate
