(yunhap news)
Kwon Min-ah, from girl group AOA, confessed that she was raped in middle school.
After confessing the facts of sexual assault on the 7th through Instagram Live on the 7th, Kwon Min-ah told about her childhood, saying, “I just wanted to tell you what kind of life I have lived after that happened.”
Kwon Min-ah said, “Since I was in elementary school, my family life became difficult, so I had to earn living expenses as soon as I became a middle school student. I had more days to work part-time than I went to school,” he said. “In the end, I dropped out and took the GED. I graduated from high school, but in those days I was immersed in the life of a trainee.”
“Since I was a student, I was absent because of a part-time job, so there were a lot of bad rumors. I’ve also been subjected to gang assault,” he said. “Once a friend told me where he was going, I was worried, so I dried it up and accompanied him. But in an empty house, he was hit by an older brother over the age of one with a beer bottle in the head and kicked it. It kept hitting, but there were several male students behind. (In the neighborhood) It was a famous Yangachi that anyone would know by just hearing her name. I still remember my name and face,” he recalled.
Kwon Min-ah said, “I was raped by a male senior. He said, “I was so angry after being raped. I couldn’t walk well on the way out, so I went home as I crawled. I couldn’t even report it because if my parents knew it, something bigger would happen. I didn’t want to be noticed by my mother, so I covered the bruises all over my body with clothes. In that state, I had to work part-time again. Afterwards, I came up as if running from Busan to Seoul.”
He said, “If I think about it now, I want to see how it will endure. When I reported it, I felt like I had to fight again by myself. “Isn’t the law properly done?” he said, “I don’t think it has collapsed well for most things since then.”
Kwon Min-ah was also angry at the articles that rated him as a “good example” in relation to the entertainment industry bullying or harassment incidents that erupted one after another on this day. He said, “I felt bad because it seemed that someone would know that I received all the apologies and recognition and that I was treated well for the victim. I hope that no more suicide attempts, extreme popularity, or nightmares. I hope such a day will come to the perpetrator. Doesn’t the perpetrator have to be worse than me?”
Earlier, Kwon Min-ah confessed that he left the team after 10 years of harassment by Jimin, who was the leader during his AOA activities in July of last year, and even made an extreme attempt. Afterwards, Jimin withdrew from AOA and stopped her activities.