“South Korean Woman Commits Suicide After Bullying Trauma, Highlighted by Netflix Drama”

▲Piao Yilin has been bullied on campus for 12 years. Recently, she chose to commit suicide because she could not bear the second injury from the outside world. She has been sent to the hospital for treatment. (Picture / Recap from YouTube)

Reporter Luo Yicheng/Comprehensive foreign reports

Netflix’s Korean drama “Dark Glory” describes the story of revenge for victims of school bullying. A 27-year-old South Korean woman, Pyo Yerin (표예림, transliteration), decided to reveal herself to the outside world through a live broadcast after watching the drama. During her 12 years of schooling, she was bullied and abused by her classmates. Afterwards, a netizen disclosed the perpetrator’s personal information without her own consent. As a result, she was verbally harassed and hurt twice by the perpetrator, and finally decided to commit suicide.

According to the Korean media “Newsis News Agency”, since the first season of Dark Glory was first released on Netflix on January 10, Pyo Ye-rin from Gyeongsangnam-do’s Uinyeong-gun made her YouTube debut on the 19th of that month. Live broadcast on the channel, talking about being bullied by classmates in elementary school, middle school, and high school for 12 years. Later, because the content described was too cruel, she was interviewed by major media successively. However, this exposed her to perpetrators and irrational netizens Their malicious comments and various secondary injuries.

▲Biao Yilin, a South Korean girl who runs a beauty salon, has suffered from bullying for a long time. (Picture / Recap from Biao Yilin IG)

The YouTube channel “Caracula Detective Agency” previously paid close attention to this incident. The channel revealed today (23rd) that Pyo Ye-rin was on her own yesterday (22nd) afternoon because she could not bear the secondary harm from the perpetrators and all walks of life. She committed suicide in a beauty salon she operated. Netizens saw her post on social media implying suicide, and quickly reported to the police. Only then did Pyo Ye-rin’s life be saved. Pyo Ye-rin has been sent to a hospital in Busan for treatment Treatment, there is no life-threatening at present.

However, the hospital warned, “If it is delivered later, it may be life-threatening due to excessive blood loss.”

Pyo Yerin appeared on the MBC current affairs program “Truth Investigator”, SBS morning program “Morning Wide”, and JTBC news current affairs program “Incident Squad Leader” after broadcasting live on her YouTube channel. However, she became the perpetrator again after that The focus of their attacks, facing criticism and pressure from all walks of life, especially since then, many anonymous YouTube channels have claimed to be involved in the bullying case of Piao Yelin, spreading various unproven rumors, causing Piao Yelin to face extreme pressure and panic .

▼Piao Yilin described her tragic experience of being bullied on campus and ignored by teachers.

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The Caracula Detective Agency said that a few days ago, the YouTube channel “Pyo Ye-rin (Case) Assassin’s Classmate”, which was established anonymously by the suspected assailants, quoted maliciously fabricated information, saying that Pyo Ye-rin was lying, mentally disturbed, and even targeted Pyo Ye-rin. The parents made personal attacks, and the channel also released the personal information of 17 perpetrators in the video, resulting in some perpetrators being fired from the workplace. Afterwards, the two perpetrators asked Pyo Ye Lin to delete the video and issue a public apology.

A netizen surnamed Kim, who claimed to be a bully, said he once locked Pyo Yerin in the bathroom during a graduation trip, made her sleep in the bathroom, and often punched and kicked her.

Piao Yilin revealed that it has been 8 to 9 years since the incident happened. Although she can’t remember the details of the bullying in the past 12 years, the most clear and common occurrence is that indoor slippers were put on thumbtacks and dragged by classmates. Going to the toilet and hitting the toilet with the forehead, being kicked by the other party in front of the desk and falling backward when sitting at the desk, being knocked on the shoulder by a classmate with a diary, deliberately bumping the shoulder and tripping, being insulted by the other party and saying that the clothes smell bad .

▲YouTube’s anonymous channel released the graduation photos of the four perpetrators of Pyo Yerin’s bullying case, namely Choi, Nam, Ren, and Zhang. (Picture / flip from Korean.com)

Although Pyo Yerin asked the youth counseling center and teachers for help, the bullying situation did not improve. Even the tutors of grades 4 and 5 asked in turn, “Did you not do anything wrong to those children?”, “Try Make up with them”, “Why do they only treat you like this”, which made her unwilling to trust adults, so she never called the police, and she was unable to move due to her difficult family situation, and she did not dare to tell her parents about her experience of being bullied, so she This has been deliberately concealed from his parents for many years.

Pyo Yerin launched a petition to Congress, hoping that members of Congress can pass legislation to protect victims of school bullying. More than 50,000 netizens responded to the petition. She said that since she experienced 12 years of campus bullying, she has faced difficulties in the development of interpersonal relationships. She has suffered from anxiety, panic, insomnia, and depression for many years. She had her gallbladder removed at the age of 25, her cecum at the age of 26, and After undergoing surgery to remove the swelling of the large intestine, I often suffer from abdominal pain for unknown reasons.

● “ETtoday News Cloud” reminds you, please give yourself a chance:
Suicide Prevention and Relief Hotline: 1925; Lifeline Counseling Hotline: 1995

●Melancholy, unresolved troubles, or relatives and friends around you have similar problems, if you are in South Korea, you can call: Suicide prevention consultation line: 1393; mental health consultation line: 1577-0199; hope line: 129; life line: 1588- 9191; Youth consultation line: 1388