SEOUL, Feb. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — The recent suicide deaths of a male professional volleyball player bullied online for years for his feminine appearance and a YouTuber accused of misandry have rekindled calls for tougher punishment for cyberbullying and malicious online comments. Kim In-hyeok, the 27-year-old volleyball player, was found dead in an apparent suicide [...]
SEOUL, April 25 (Korea Bizwire) — Cases of cyberbullying involving elementary to high school students increased sharply last year as the new coronavirus pandemic turned many classes online, a survey showed Sunday. According to the survey released by the Blue Tree Foundation, cyberbullying accounted for 16.3 percent of all school bullying cases experienced by respondents [...]
SEJONG, Jan. 21 (Korea Bizwire) – School violence in general fell to the lowest level since 2017 last year, but group and cyberbullying cases rose, an annual report by the education ministry showed Thursday. In the survey conducted between Sept. 14 and Oct. 23, 0.9 percent of the respondents said they had experienced school violence [...]
ORLANDO, Florida, Nov. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — The primary goal of schools has always been to educate and support the students placed under their care. Essential to accomplishing that goal is the need to provide a safe environment for them. It is the school’s duty to do all that it can to prevent disruptions to [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — More than one out of every 100 elementary and secondary students in South Korea suffered some form of abuse at school last year, according to a poll released Wednesday. In the poll of about 130,000 students from fourth to 11th grades conducted by the Ministry of Education last September, [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — Bullying in the workplace, bullies online and too many hours spent on the job. These three are some of the social issues that South Koreans would desperately like to see addressed in 2018. Cases of “gapjil”, a Korean euphemism referring to the abuse of an individual’s or organization’s power [...]
GWANGJU, Sept. 12 (Korea Bizwire) – A man who sued his video game opponent for trash talk that reportedly left him depressed and stressed may not have won the battle, but he has at least partially won the war. On September 11, a Gwangju district court partly ruled in favor of the plaintiff who was [...]
DAEJEON, April 17 (Korea Bizwire) – With zero exaggeration, the experience on the app is horrifying. As soon as one launches the app, the user (victim) gets a fake phone call. When answered, a girl threatens the victim, telling her to reply to Kakao Talk messages. The app then asks the user for his or her [...]
SEOUL, July 25 (Korea Bizwire) – The number of cyberbullying cases observed by local schools jumped in 2015 from three years earlier, data showed Monday, in line with the sharp increase in mobile messenger users. According to the data compiled by the parliament’s education committee, the number of cyberbullying cases monitored by schools came to [...]