A YouTuber with 200,000 subscribers, known for posting mostly diet content, said directly that the YouTuber was raped.
YouTuber A posted a video on the 2nd titled "It took me a long time to bring this up" on the channel, saying, "I am a YouTuber who shares my daily life, and I spent 331 out of 365 days in a year crying," and added, "At 2 a.m. on May 23 last year, I was raped by a taxi driver."
A said, "I am a rape victim, but I don't know why I have to hide it," adding, "I am not the perpetrator who committed a crime, so why do I have to live hiding like this? Still, I kept going as a YouTuber because I thought that if I told people I was raped, they would find me very pitiful and unfortunate and think, 'That person was raped.'"
A said, "At the time, I took a taxi in Seoul to go home after drinking. It was past midnight and the last trains had all stopped," adding, "I drank a lot and blacked out in the back seat of the taxi, and after parking in my apartment lot, the taxi driver climbed into the back seat and raped me."
A has recently emphasized "healthy dieting," including taking on a marathon, and explained the reason: "After I was raped, my health became very bad," adding, "My uterus was completely damaged, and I have been going to an obstetrician-gynecologist for a year. I am still receiving treatment."
A continued, "Because everything is ruined, I try to sleep more than eight hours a day, cook my meals, and exercise, but my condition is getting worse," adding, "Yesterday I had a severe panic episode, and with seizures and hyperventilation, depression and anxiety kept me from focusing. In August, I also attempted self-harm."
A explained the reason for speaking up: "I recently received an email saying one of my subscribers suffered the same sex crime as I did," adding, "Reading that, I thought, 'I wasn't the only one,' 'So many women are suffering sex crimes.'"
A also described the pain of the lawsuit process. "Korea's litigation system makes victims who are already suffering endure years more," adding, "A lawsuit doesn't end overnight. I have been at it for a year and a half, and it isn't over. They say it's almost done, but it isn't ending."
A added, "The police said to me, 'Why didn't you report it when you were raped?'" and continued, "If you experienced it yourself, do you think you could report it right away? You can't. Even so, I reported it as soon as I opened my eyes in bed, but nothing changed."