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'The Glory' real-life victims appear, perpetrators are nurses and social workers
In Channel S's 'Attack on Sisters', which will be aired on the 7th, various speakers shared their concerns.
The storyteller with a youthful face introduced himself as “Park Seong-min, 31 years old from Daegu.” He started by saying, “My friends saw ‘The Glory’ and said it sounded like my story.” He then revealed the reason for his appearance, saying, "I want to get revenge on the perpetrator's friends."
Park Seong-min calmly brought up his past wounds, saying, "When I was in the second or third year of middle school. I got hit a lot and got burned with a curling iron. Two people bullied me. I was tied up once."
MC Park Mi-sun asked, “How are the perpetrators living now?” Park Seong-min, who saw the perpetrators' daily lives through social accounts, responded, "They sponsored charity organizations and obtained nursing and social worker certifications. That makes me very angry and horrified."
Park Seong-min confessed, "Those friends just didn't like me. When I was young, I was thin and short. Their purpose was simply to vent their anger." He then confessed the situation at the time, saying, "At first, he borrowed 500 to 700 won at a time, but then he extorted money by giving more and more absurd reasons. He said, 'You are unpleasant, so I have to give you money.' The frequency increased and the amount increased." He also said, "He was neither an iljin nor a model student. The violence started when he went from second to third grade."
Park Seong-min had burn marks where the assailants used a curling iron. Park Seong-min cried, saying, "I still have marks on my right arm from second-degree burns. I held my right arm and burned it with a heated iron for about 5 minutes." The MCs who saw the burn scars couldn't help but feel angry. Park Seong-min said, "When I was in a bad mood, I stabbed my entire body with a sharp fork. I threw things like plastic pipes at everything I could find, but it hit my face accidentally and tore my iris. There were always bruises on my face and body."
Park Seong-min said that he was once imprisoned by the assailants for three days at a time. Park Seong-min said, "They lied carefully. They called my house and said that I had run away from home and that I was depressed and suicidal because I was alone, and that they would take care of me. They told my parents that I had run away from home and had nowhere to go."
It is said that the school violence committee was finally held around the fall of third grade. Park Seong-min said, "It was the fall break of my third year, and the pus had burst. The pus was sticking to my clothes. My parents found out about the hair iron incident. I couldn't sleep for six months because of the trauma. I bought sleeping pills and saved up. I developed a phobia of hair straighteners, so I went to a hair salon. “If you burn yourself with a curling iron, that person looks like a perpetrator,” she said, shedding tears.
Jang Young-ran asked, “Has the perpetrator ever apologized?” Park Sung-min replied, “I came here to apologize, but I was just smiling.” He continued, “One perpetrator was punished, and the other ended up with 40 hours of service and a one-week suspension.” In addition, he said, "I ended up going to the same university as one of the perpetrators. We ran into each other in the same building, and his hands were shaking. He brought his friends and passed by, saying, 'I know this guy.'"
Park Mi-sun asked, “So what kind of revenge do you want to take?” Park Seong-min said, "I thought the perpetrators would see it if it was broadcast," and expressed his desire to try to make the perpetrators understand even a little of his pain. Park Mi-sun offered consolation, saying, "The bad ones are bad until the end. You just have to live better than them. Doesn't Song Hye-kyo become devastated in the drama? You have to live in reality."
Kim Ji-won, Ten Asia reporter bella@tenasia.co.kr
