Pyo Ye Rim, the bullying victim who was inspired by the Korean series The Glory to reveal her own case of bullying, has died at the age of 27. Moments before her death, the young woman appeared before her followers on YouTube, where she spoke in a video now removed from the platform about how she wanted to “be in a place where she can relax,” while she cried. She also asked that people not stop investigating her case.
The story of school bullying, in which a woman puts together an elaborate revenge plan years after having survived the terrible bullying of her classmates, so that they fall one by one – created by Kim Eun Sook and An Gil Ho and currently broadcasts on Netflix-; It was the starting point for his public fight against bullying in schools, one of the most dramatic problems in the Korean school system. A series
The emergency services in Busan, South Korea, were alerted by several neighbors who saw a woman fall into the Seonjigok reservoir around noon on Tuesday, October 10. Shortly after, the woman’s body was found by police search teams and taken to hospital, where she was pronounced dead due to cardiac arrest. The woman was later identified as influencer Pyo Ye Rim. Korean police also ruled out any signs of foul play when they found the young woman.
The young woman became a current protagonist after giving an interview on Korean television, after the premiere of the series, a success on the streaming platform; in which she revealed that she was the victim of brutal bullying at school for more than a decade.
Some incidents that led her to seek justice against her harassers, whom she identified through social networks, although nothing more was done about it by the authorities. Additionally, she became the face of a petition to the Korean government last April, calling for the abolition of laws that favor bullies who commit bullying.
That same month, the young Korean woman was hospitalized after an apparent suicide attempt, after she revealed on several occasions that other influencers were harassing her and making her life impossible through social networks. One of them, whom she named directly, began a tough legal battle against the young woman, accusing her, among other things, of attacking her honor.
The young woman was involved in a murky legal matter, in which in addition to having to deal with a former sex offender who used her image to commit scams; The aforementioned YouTuber began to file lawsuits accusing him of defamation of the facts. Not only her, but she would also have sued the journalist who helped the young woman a few months ago to uncover her case and published an article about the harasser.
After his death was announced in the media, the YouTuber – with his cases still in court – assures that he has nothing to do with the death of Pyo Ye Rim; and that she would have simply felt “threatened” and intimidated by the entire legal process.
