At the beginning of May, Aespa's appearance at Kyungbok High School which should have been received positively actually reaped concerns after a student made a comment containing sexual harassment.
Students who posted Instagram photos and commented on sexual harassment against Aespa after this girl group appeared at Kyungbok High School was reported to have been disciplined by the school. Experts show that prevention education should be given to make teenagers aware of sexual harassment in Sosila media is a digital crime.
According to a report on Wednesday (5/18), the Kyungbok Middle School Life Education Committee in Jongno-Gu, Seoul held a meeting on May 12. The party decided to discipline a student who posted a photo and wrote a sexually harassing comment about Aespa in his personal account.
"We cannot reveal the form of disciplinary to protect student identity. The student has pondered his mistakes in depth. He said he posted it on his personal Instagram and did not know people would come to his account," said an official from Kyungbok High School.
As is known, Aespa appeared at Kyungbook High School on May 2. Some photos of Aespa members along with inappropriate comments, thus triggering controversy. At that time, some netizens even protected the perpetrators by saying, "He can't even touch them. What's the problem?"
Lee Hyun Sook as a representative of sex counseling and sex activist groups for young people taktin Tomorrow said there was untruth about this. "This incident shows that our society encourages a culture of entertainment men to do this and that by targeting women and allowing men to enjoy sexual harassment behavior that regards women as a tool," said Counselor Lee Hyun Sook.
"In this case, social signals need to be given that these actions can also lead to crime. Entertainment culture that demeaning human dignity and sexualization of women must be improved and students must be educated to sympathize with the victims," continued Counselor Lee Hyun Sook.
Meanwhile, it was reported that this incident received attention from Kyungbok High School who planned to provide face -to -face sex education about gender sensitivity for all classes. The plan is rumored to be starting on May 27 after consulting with the Seoul Metropolitan Education Office. (wk/taki)
