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The Korea Times

By Bahk Eun-ji
A former television director turned university professor has come under fire for criticising deceased K-pop star Goo Hara and implying the suffering caused by secretly recorded sex videos is trivial.
During a November 27 lecture recorded by students, Ajou University professor Joo Chul-hwan described Goo as mentally vulnerable while talking about the need for students to be strong when facing criticism. The former member of K-pop group Kara, who had suffered from depression due to malicious online comments, was found dead in her home in Seoul on November 24.
“When you don’t have a strong mentality, you’ll become Goo Hara,” Joo said in the recording. “People swear [at you] because they feel inferior [to you]. Why kill yourself because of such people? You have to have a strong mind.”

He then mentioned the singer’s ex-boyfriend, Choi Jong-bum, who was the target of a lawsuit filed by Goo in 2018 for allegedly threatening to release a video clip of the couple having sex.
Saying Goo should have dealt with the case more audaciously, the professor said that even if others watched the video, she should have said: “What do you think about my body?”


Ajou University’s female student group released the recording of Joo’s lecture and issued a statement denouncing him.
It said: “Such a point of view regarding women’s agony and suffering as private and trivial matters killed Goo and many other women. It is definitely not a problem of an individual’s mentality. Your comments just reflected this society’s deep-rooted misogynistic culture and took the seriousness of cyber sexual violence lightly.”
The student group also requested mandatory sex education for all school faculty and staff to prevent a recurrence of such incidents. University officials said they were investigating the incident.
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