Victim of 'gaslighting' sociopath

‘I heard it, saw it, it’s plausible’ dug into the ‘gaslighting’ incident in detail.

JTBC's 'Heared, Seen, It's Likely' (hereinafter referred to as 'It's Likely'), which aired on the 18th, featured the fifth drama about a case where a teacher kills his student, along with Bang Min-ah, who appeared as a guest. The shocking story and sad reality brought viewers to tears.

The incident introduced on this day was a case in which the suspect, a tutor, killed the victim, a high school student, in 2013. The high school student's cause of death was sepsis due to burns. The tutor assaulted the high school student by pouring boiling water on his body, and did not take him to the hospital for three days.

The tutor and the high school student both had something in common: they had been 'gaslighted'. I was psychologically dominated by a person who was a friend of a school teacher and tutor who was dating a high school student. The fifth radio drama took a closer look at the case, including the actors' performances, interviews with the actual prosecutor in charge, criminal psychology professor Lee Soo-jung, and the contents of the suspects' text messages.

In the play, Bang Min-ah played the role of Kim In-young, a tutor who killed her student, and Lee Eun-ji played the role of Park So-hee, a friend of Kim In-young and the student teacher who forced the student to drop out and die, reenacting the situation at the time. Bang Min-ah expressed her feelings of collapse at the fact that her boyfriend, whom she had been in contact with for four years, was actually her friend Park So-hee, while also drawing the image of someone who had been gaslighted, worrying that her friend would go wrong because of her, increasing immersion.

Eunji Lee gave goosebumps all over her body by portraying a sociopathic character who has enough psychological power to control her friends, students, and even her ex-boyfriend. Although he admitted assaulting the victim, he said there was no causal relationship with the burns that caused the victim's death, and caused anger by his shameless attitude of saying that the victim was able to resist well but did not run away.

Seo Hyeon-cheol, who plays the victim's father, visits Park Ha-seon, who plays the prosecutor, and shows off his passion to clear his son's name. As stigma was added to her dead son through comments on the article, she showed off the awards her son had received and cried in tears, clearly conveying her feelings for her son.

Kim Ji-won, Ten Asia reporter bella@tenasia.co.kr