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In September 2010, Kim So-yeong, a second year middle school student who asked to use an alias, was dragged into an alley by eight students who said they were in a “bad mood” and proceeded to hit Kim for an hour. One of the students was Kim’s schoolmate at a Gyeonggi middle school.
It was just the beginning of Kim’s long ordeal.
The eight students then took Kim to a closed-down PC room and pinned her arms so that she could not move, beat her with an empty overturned plastic water jug and burned her lips, tongue and arms with a cigarette.
Every time Kim screamed, she was burned with a cigarette. Her assailants called over older high school boys and made them join in on beating Kim and spit on her face.
Five hours later, Kim, who has suffered from epilepsy since childhood, had a seizure, but the bullies left her and she eventually lost consciousness. She was later discovered and transferred to a hospital.
Kim, now 16, recalls being assaulted on some 90 different occasions over four months beginning in May 2010. The beatings were conducted in the school hallways, underneath the neighborhood bridge and elsewhere.
Because she was concerned that her father would worry about her, Kim had not let on about the anguish that she had endured from the bullies until that final incident in the fall.
Kim’s father, 42, filed suit against the students and school for her suffering.
A year and three months later, on Dec. 26, the court ruled on the case.
Although the court ordered two of the eight students that assaulted Kim that September to pay a fine of 33 million won, it did not recognize the fault of the school. The father had settled out of court with the other students.
The court stated in its ruling, “It is difficult to find evidence the plaintiff was assaulted in school or that the teachers or principal could have predicted this.”
According to the court, since the September incident occurred on a Sunday, it is difficult to hold the school principal or teachers responsible.
As a result of the court case, Kim has thus far received compensation of 12 million won. But because of the cost of the lawsuit and her treatment, her father is on the brink of having to sell his barber shop.
Kim’s father said in an interview at his barber shop on Friday, “Instead of monetary compensation, I just want to see the school take responsibility instead of avoiding it.”
He added quietly, “Though I don’t know much about the law, I wish the school could have said just one word of genuine apology.”
Kim has suffered from epilepsy since she was three years old. Because of her condition, it hasn’t been easy for her to hang out with her peers and she has to take medication constantly. Since her parents divorced, she has been living with her father, grandmother and younger sibling.
Her father says he would fight the Provincial Office of Education, under which his daughter’s school falls, but his financial situation prevents him from doing so.
He said his only solace is that his daughter will leave middle school and enter high school come spring.
Kim and her family went to a New Year’s Day church service, and as she came out of the church, her face held few traces of the dreadful ordeal she had to endure.
Her father said, “I hope my daughter is less sick and healthier in the New Year. I pray to God that the violence at the school will disappear.”
By Lee Dong-hyun [sarahkim@joongang.co.kr]
By Lee Dong-hyun
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