![On October 12, 2020, actor Park Hye-soo attended a press conference after the press release premiere of the movie'Samjin Group English TOEIC Class' held at the Konkuk University entrance of Lotte Cinema in Seoul. [사진 롯데엔터테인먼트]](https://i0.wp.com/pds.joins.com/news/component/htmlphoto_mmdata/202103/07/245dd751-ec31-45c4-b618-29954b0ac8d0.jpg?w=560&ssl=1)
On October 12, 2020, actor Park Hye-soo attended a press conference after the press release premiere of the movie’Samjin Group English TOEIC Class’ held at the Konkuk University entrance of Lotte Cinema in Seoul. [사진 롯데엔터테인먼트]
Actor Park Hye-soo (pictured), who was caught in controversy over school violence (hakpok), made a direct statement on his Instagram on the 7th. Rather, he denied that he was a victim of school violence and that the disclosure was not true.
Park Hye-soo posted a long article and said, “The reason I couldn’t (directly) come forward for a long time was because I knew that my words would be powerless amid the prejudice that grew out of control.”
Park Hye-soo said, “After studying abroad, I returned to middle school. Scary things started happening to me, who started school in a strange place.” He claimed that he was harassed for transferring from Gangbuk to school, and that malicious false rumors had spread around him. “The rumors of’he said he went to the United States for an abortion operation’ and’he said he was paid for because he had never been to the United States and because he was poor conduct’ followed me as if it were true,” he said.
They also reported that they suffered from persistent swear words and sexual harassment texts. Park Hye-soo said, “I overturned the plate while I was eating, or when I passed the corridor, I spit swear words. I said’I want to hit me’ by tapping my head for’it’s annoying’.”
Park Hye-soo said, “That person is the person who claims to be the current victim.” “The boy’s friends have sown the seeds of all these lies in a group, posting falsely littered comments on my Instagram.”
He suggested a legal response, saying, “Even if it takes time, we will surely find out the facts.” Park Hye-soo said, “I hope you will remember that false disclosure and reckless slander can also be the same violence against someone,” he said. “Even if it takes a long time, I will find out one by one.
The following is the full text of the admission.
It took a really long time to post this post. I’m sorry it took so long to talk like this. I wrote, erased, and repeated countless times. While watching and believing that it would pass because it was not true, the lie bit the tail of the lie, gave birth to new lie, and they piled up like a mountain and kept rising. It was painful to see a photo or two unrelated to the facts gaining strength as’certification’, and the process of fake disclosures creating prejudices that are difficult to erase.
I knew that many people had been waiting for me to come and talk. Still, the reason I couldn’t come out for a long time was because I knew that my words would be powerless in the midst of my prejudices that grew out of control. Despite the fact that many evidences were exposed to add strength to the words, I saw that the facts were not taken as the truth, so I wrote this.
I’ve already experienced once in the past that false rumors spread and they were imprinted on people as if they were true. That’s why we know how difficult it is to put the countless lies that have come out of people’s mouths one by one.
In 2008, when I was in my second year of middle school, I left for the US to study as an exchange student, and then returned to Korea the following year. When I returned to Korea, I left my hometown and transferred to school, and in July 2009, I returned to the second year of middle school at an unfamiliar school. When I started school in an unfamiliar place where no one knows, the scary things that I experienced for the first time began to happen.
I transferred from Gangbuk, and I was one year older than my classmates, and rumors about me began to spread quickly because of the’fact’ that I had been studying abroad in the United States. Rumors of’he went to the US to have an abortion’ and’that he had never been to the US and that he was paid for poor behavior in the whole town’ began to follow me as if it were true. My number, which I only gave to two or three people, was scattered everywhere, and every morning when I woke up, I received text messages containing severe abusive language and sexual harassment. As soon as I open my eyes in the morning, I remember the times when I checked my cell phone with my thumping heart and cried silently without my parents’ knowledge.
For me, as a very ordinary student in my previous school, loved by my friends and teachers and filled with only good memories, those times were unbearably harsh. About a week before I went to the US, I was happy that my homeroom teacher and classmates all gathered and held a surprise farewell party even though it wasn’t the day I went to school. It was very painful not knowing if I should blame it. It was really hard because of the bullying for which the reason was unknown, but I couldn’t tell my parents who forced me to move for my education, so I couldn’t tell anyone and I was sick alone.
The bullying got worse. There were things like going over the plate while eating and getting all the food in the school uniform, hitting it while passing the corridor, and spitting abusive language behind your back. I was called into the corridor in the 3rd grade because it was’just annoying’ and hit my head in front of many students, saying’I want to hit you’ and’I would have hit it even if I was in the 3rd grade.’
However, the reason I was able to endure in such a situation was nonetheless because I had a few warm friends who reached out. Instead of rumors or prejudices about me, I am able to improve my school life more and more thanks to my friends who look at me and love me. However, due to the still unhealed wounds, I received counseling at the counseling center for 3 years. Through regular consultations, I was able to clear a lot of my wounds. Starting with fake rumors, I was hated, harassed, and resentful towards others, and eventually I was able to soothe my feelings of hating and hating myself.
When I first transferred to school, I overturned my table, and when I passed by, the person who spoke swear words is the person who claims to be the current victim. After that, I got closer to the third grade. Even while we were together, even this year when there was no traffic, what we shared was the friendship of our childhood. As long as the situation has gone so far, it will be inevitable that the moments legally cover all the criticisms, but it really hurts when I think about why the relationship I used to be friends with had to be like this.
The child’s friends ran into my Instagram account in a crowd, posted falsely littered comments, and sowed the seeds of all these lies. Anonymous stories circulating on the Internet are also captured on Instagram account. Stories of unknown identity or source are all circulating on the Internet as if they were true.
From Instagram comments to two interviews, I would like to ask this child why the hell should he do that, and what he gains through it, by falsely inciting and ruining me with an unreliable story that changes from moment to moment. With all of these actions I’m hoping to break down and break, I won’t be shaken, and even if it takes months, I will surely find out.
The victims’ meeting room, where there were dozens of people, also appears to be insubstantial like the stories above, and reports are coming from inside the room about the number of people in it. At the moment, it feels meaningless to talk about all the fake gossip things that are floating around and make a statement, so I will move on without further waiting or compromise.
As I watched this, I encountered myself as a young child who had been hurt by rumors and harassment, which I had hidden deep in my heart. If I hadn’t chosen a job that reveals this, I might have wanted to appeal to someone about my terrible memories that are hard to recall. However, I would like you to remember that false disclosure and the resulting reckless slander can also be the same violence against someone. There have been specific reports on the past mistakes of those who claim to be victims, but I don’t want to publicize the content because I think it is the same violence.
KBS and DM officials, actors, and all staff who have been affected by the controversy about me…. I am very, very sorry to all of you.
I am so grateful to the many people who support and support me even while I haven’t been able to say anything for a few days. Thanks to this, I was able to get up in the midst of suffering, see the situation clearly, and prepare step by step. Even if it takes a long time, slowly, we uncover one by one, and we believe that in the end all of this will pass. I sincerely hope that you will continue to look at the facts as they are. The article was really long. Thank you for reading.
Reporter Dayoung Kim [email protected]
