SEOUL, Feb. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — Starting from professional volleyball, the recent school bullying scandal has now engulfed the South Korean entertainment scene, with names of a number of K-pop stars and film and TV actors making headlines across the country. Last week, volleyball players, including popular twin sisters Lee Jae-yeong and Lee Da-yeong of [...]
SEOUL, May 29 (Korea Bizwire) — Three rising K-pop stars and their agencies have recently gotten into trouble following revelations that the stars bullied classmates in their school years. They are Yoo Young-hyun, member of the popular indie band Jannabi, singer Hyolyn from the now-disbanded girl group Sistar and Yoon Seo-bin, once the front-runner of [...]
SEOUL, May 10 (Korea Bizwire) – Nearly two out of 10 primary and secondary school students were either perpetrators or victims of cyber bullying, carried out often by acquaintances while victims react with passivity, a report showed Tuesday. Compiled jointly by the Korea Communications Commission and the Korea Internet & Security Agency, the report was [...]
SEOUL, April 18 (Korea Bizwire) – The Seoul Metropolitan Government will tap into the ‘design for good’ concept in its attempt to bring about social change, in particular curbing increasingly pervasive school bullying. After research into the factors behind school bullying, the city decided to launch what it calls “The Preventive Design to Build Violence-free [...]