School violence victims, “I felt miserable after watching Moon Dong Eun’s story in ‘The Glory’… I’ll sue the perpetrators”
BBC Korea drew attention by covering stories of people who suffered similar school violence experiences like Moon Dong Eun in “The Glory”.
On March 24th, BBC Korea, the Korean branch of BBC, released an article titled “Stories of real Dong Euns”, highlighting how the positive influence of the drama has helped school violence victims in real life.
Amid the global popularity of Netflix’s drama “The Glory”, BBC Korea conducted an interview with Korean Dong Euns. The video includes painful stories of grown-up men and women who suffered from school violence in the past.
One of the interviewees Pyo Ye Rim (28 years old), who is working as a hairdresser, suffered school violence for 12 years from elementary to high school. She was kicked in the stomach or dragged to the bathroom and forced to put her head in a toilet bowl, however, she tried to ignore her memories of being bullied after graduating from school. Pyo said, “To be honest, it was hard for me to watch the drama. I thought I wouldn’t be able to handle this drama if I kept watching it. Though it was hard to watch such content, I still wanted to see the differences between the choices I and Moon Dong Eun, who both suffered from school violence for 12 years, made.”
She said, “I suffered from school violence for 12 years, from elementary school to high school. The number of perpetrators who bullied me up until high school was around 90. More than half of the class were perpetrators. They put me in the middle of the blackboard and kicked me. They kept kicking me until there was a reaction. When I was in 5th grade, a teacher asked me, ‘Did you do anything wrong to those kids?’. I replied, ‘Please save me, please help me’. I wondered what the teacher thought when hearing that.”
Pyo said, “I thought the drama was unrealistic. It’s not that easy. Some people choose to commit suicide because of school violence. My last choice could have been suicide too. However, I didn’t choose it because I wanted to live. So, am I alive or dead?”.
She continued, “I blamed myself a lot when watching the story of Moon Dong Eun. For many years, I have been running away from those kids because I was afraid of them. He felt good seeing the drama end with a successful revenge. Since I have started to feel Dong Eun’s feelings, I also wonder what I should do now. At the age of 28, I realized that I have to take action. I heard people asking various questions, such as ‘Are you Pyo Hye Kyo?’, ‘You know you are not Song Hye Kyo, right?’, ‘The statute of limitations had passed, what can you do now?’, etc.”
Although Pyo belatedly came forward with exposing her school violence experience to pursue legal action, most of the cases had already passed the statute of limitations. She said, “The outcome that I wanted is that there will be no more victims like me, to prevent anyone from becoming a perpetrator and committing such crimes. That is my ultimate revenge.”
Lim Ho Gyun (24 years old), who is working with pets, also revealed his school violence experience during middle and high school. He suffered from depression due to subtle and persistent verbal violence and had to receive treatments at various centers and closed psychiatric wards.
Lim said, “I think they bullied me in a clever way. I felt nervous and nervous, and they did it to me almost every day. I was struggling alone for a long time”, adding, “I feel bad seeing the perpetrators living well, becoming famous and having many followers now. It’s not easy to forgive everything, and I want to receive a sincere apology. I wish my life had not been involved in such a situation.”
Source: Daum
