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The so-called’Happy Me Too’ is spreading beyond the sports world to all areas of society after the case of the sisters of Lee Jae-young and Da-young Lee, who are excommunicated as the disclosure that they harassed fellow players in middle school became true. One day on the 15th, an online community posted a series of articles stating that the children of the incumbent police and the incumbent superintendent had suffered from school violence 20 years ago. Experts pointed out that since the trauma of victims often leads to adulthood, a more effective support system for overcoming the trauma of victims should be prepared with the opportunity of’Happy Me Too’. When the explanations such as the’School Violence Victims’ Family Council’ (academic association) on the 17th are summarized, the victims and experts expected that this’Happy Me Too’ would bring some kind of educational effect. It means that no matter how much violence you have committed in the past, it can teach you a lesson that in the future you will end up being disadvantaged. Hakgahyup is an organization organized by parents directly in the wake of a case where a child was severely injured by school violence. Shin Joon-ha, the secretary general of Hakga-hyup, said in a call that day and said, “Societal awareness that school violence is a wrong act is widespread, and public opinion supporting victims can easily be formed, so the victims have also been able to courage.” However, the problem is the psychological and physical sequelae of the victim. Victims suffer from depression, atrophy and anxiety, low self-esteem, and suicidal behavior for a long time. These aftereffects are often carried by the victims and their families. Secretary General Shin said, “There are cases where people live with fear so that they cannot walk through the alleys for a while even after they become adults.” Gyun-seok Kang (Bucheon Il Shinjoong), a teacher at the’Built-out Social Research Group’, said, “The reason the victims are unable to escape from the victim’s experience is because there is no process to clarify the truth and resolve their resentment.” Said. However, the perpetrators often perceived their violence as a joke. According to the results of the ‘2020 School Violence Survey’ released by the Ministry of Education last month, 9300 of the 295 million respondents, who said they had experienced violence, cited’without prank or special reason’ (28.1%) the most as the reason for the abuse. They also committed violence for reasons such as’because of anger or stress’ (8.3%) and’to look strong’ (5%). Nevertheless, of the 27,900 students who experienced school violence, 17.6% were unable to inform the outside of the incident. Victims and experts agreed that education authorities should focus more on helping victims overcome trauma early and lead a normal life rather than strengthening punishment for perpetrators of school violence. It means that institutions that support victims of victims who operate counseling or healing programs should be greatly expanded and the Ministry of Education should directly operate them. The Ministry of Education is planning to increase the number of institutions supporting victims from 48 as of 2019 to 60 by 2024.Although the scale is a problem, the National Youth and Space Center has been criticized for its expertise due to the operation of a support program for victims. . Park Nam-gi, a professor at Gwangju National University of Education (pedagogy), said, “School violence should be considered in a balanced way through prevention, punishment, and healing as a healthy member of society, but the focus has been on dealing with cases due to lack of budget and manpower. “It’s true.” By Lee Yoo-jin, staff reporter