"School violence traps both the child and the parents inside it." On "Live with Hwang Shin-hye," actor Kwon Oh-jung confessed that his son, who has a developmental disability due to a rare disease, was a victim of school violence, sparking public outrage.
On the evening of the 29th, KBS 1TV entertainment show "Live with Hwang Shin-hye" (abbreviated Live with Hwang) featured Kwon Oh-jung as a guest.
Kwon Oh-jung's son, Hyuk-jun, is one of only 15 patients worldwide with a rare disease. Because of this, he also suffered difficulties such as being a victim of school violence. Regarding this, he said, "When my child was attending school, he liked to go around with friends but was always alone. It wasn't that the kids deliberately ostracized him. Young kids become close by playing together, but because he couldn't play with them, he ended up alone."
He continued, "When he entered middle school, he said he didn't want to go to school. Someone said they hit his stomach. Later, when I asked the friend who supposedly hit him at school, he protested that it wasn't true. So I went home and scolded my child instead. Later I got a call saying go quickly because they took him to the emergency room for a neck injury. It turned out our child had been bullied by five people for a year," he revealed, shocking viewers.
Kwon Oh-jung said, "The friend who said I hit the child had lied. They pretended to be close while going to the bathroom together, then hit him with a stick, hit his stomach in the bathroom, and made him crawl on the floor," adding, "The neck injury happened when the child was looking out a window and they asked what he was looking at and hit him, embedding glass fragments in his neck. We only learned that after the police investigated the year-long bullying," he choked out.
He even said, "Only the ringleader among the five transferred schools. But because it wasn't a forced transfer and he transferred voluntarily, the school violence record did not remain on his academic record. The other four who participated in the school violence only changed classes within the same school. So during breaks they would come to my child's class and keep bullying him. They teased him by saying they would report him for school violence if others played with him. In the end, we barely got him to graduate and he went to a different high school," he said, adding to the sorrow.
Kwon Oh-jung said, "School violence traps not only the child but also the parents inside it," and added, "If I have a wish, since we inevitably are getting older, I want to see him walk well and become more normal before I go," eventually showing tears. Wiping his tears, he said, "I wasn't going to cry today," and after choking up added, "No matter how strong you think you are, tears come."
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