This is a 10, such an enjoyable realistic movie, even while being pretty simple. I felt genuinely happy in the end and not that fluffy romcom happiness you get from some unrealistic and forced senarios. It was great.
Bullying in South Korea and Suicide
Suicide is the most common cause of death in the age group 15-24 in South Korea. This can partially be attributed to the severity of the issue of bullying in South Korea’s schools. According to 2012 National School Violence Survey conducted on 5540 students by the Foundation for Preventing Youth Violence, 12% have reported being bullied. Of the bullied students, 49.3% (as compared to 33.5 in 2011) have stated that the “emotional pain due to bullying was beyond tolerable.”
In 2011, a South Korean child by the name Seung-min has committed suicide by throwing himself off of his room’s window after consistent incidents of brutal bullying that followed him from school to his own house. In his suicide note, the child describes being “beaten and robbed by boys in his class, burned with lighters and having electrical wire tied around his neck as a leash.” Apparently, the bullies have also followed him home and would beat him and physically bully him while his parents are still outside.
Senug-min’s mother tells also of how another child (a girl) from the same school as her son’s has committed suicide only 5 months before he killed himself. Nothing was done by the school to ensure the tragedy doesn’t reoccur, and so it happened again. The school has since then changed the principal, and the bullies have been prosecuted, but no new policies were put in place, nothing to protect the next victim from the next bully.
The number of students who had reported considering suicide due to school violence has increased from 31.4% in 2011, to 44.7% in 2012. If that says anything, it’s that the emotional toll bullying takes on South Korean students is growing exponentially. According to the South Korean Ministry of Education, verbal abuse came in first place with 35.3%, followed by outcasting with 16.5%. Both types of bullying obviously target causing maximum emotional damage to the bullying victim, which clearly explains the deep psychological wounds school students suffer through due to bullying in South Korea, deep enough to prompt dropping out of school, and, often too, suicide.
The policies implemented by the Korean Ministry of Education don’t seem to help solve the problem or protect the students from its effects. Bullying in South Korea remains an ever-growing nightmare that awaits a radical solution.
Source : https://nobullying com/bullying-in-south-korea/
Bullying in South Korea and Suicide
Suicide is the most common cause of death in the age group 15-24 in South Korea. This can partially be attributed to the severity of the issue of bullying in South Korea’s schools. According to 2012 National School Violence Survey conducted on 5540 students by the Foundation for Preventing Youth Violence, 12% have reported being bullied. Of the bullied students, 49.3% (as compared to 33.5 in 2011) have stated that the “emotional pain due to bullying was beyond tolerable.”
In 2011, a South Korean child by the name Seung-min has committed suicide by throwing himself off of his room’s window after consistent incidents of brutal bullying that followed him from school to his own house. In his suicide note, the child describes being “beaten and robbed by boys in his class, burned with lighters and having electrical wire tied around his neck as a leash.” Apparently, the bullies have also followed him home and would beat him and physically bully him while his parents are still outside.
Senug-min’s mother tells also of how another child (a girl) from the same school as her son’s has committed suicide only 5 months before he killed himself. Nothing was done by the school to ensure the tragedy doesn’t reoccur, and so it happened again. The school has since then changed the principal, and the bullies have been prosecuted, but no new policies were put in place, nothing to protect the next victim from the next bully.
The number of students who had reported considering suicide due to school violence has increased from 31.4% in 2011, to 44.7% in 2012. If that says anything, it’s that the emotional toll bullying takes on South Korean students is growing exponentially. According to the South Korean Ministry of Education, verbal abuse came in first place with 35.3%, followed by outcasting with 16.5%. Both types of bullying obviously target causing maximum emotional damage to the bullying victim, which clearly explains the deep psychological wounds school students suffer through due to bullying in South Korea, deep enough to prompt dropping out of school, and, often too, suicide.
The policies implemented by the Korean Ministry of Education don’t seem to help solve the problem or protect the students from its effects. Bullying in South Korea remains an ever-growing nightmare that awaits a radical solution.