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In February 2021, Kim Dong-hee, a new generation actor who performed "Itaewon Class" and "Classroom on Earth", was exposed as the perpetrator of campus violence.
Kim Dong-hee was first hit by the Internet explosion "hitting people is basically daily", and said that the case of other artists being bullied by the explosion is basically pediatric for Kim. He alleged that he would not only hang e-cigarettes around his neck or in his pockets in middle school, and smoke in the classroom, but also bully disabled classmates, slap each other with games, or ask weaker classmates to help him massage.
Then, netizen A appeared and showed off his graduation album, saying that he was a victim of Kim Dong-hee's bullying in elementary school, and had just received a call from Kim Dong-hee's mother to apologize to his mother.
Netizen A recalled, "In the 5th grade of primary school, no matter what the reason, it should be some reason that the trail cannot remember, when many students in the school corridor are watching, they grab my collar and show my fist to me, and they are threatened to kill me with something sharp that they have forgotten."
He also pointed out that Kim Dong-hee had already apologized to him that year, "My parents were too angry to run to the school's office and the principal's office, when the principal apologized to us as a school representative, Kim Dong-hee came to our house with his mother, remembering that they knelt down and apologized and went back."
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Soon, Kim Dong-hee's company came forward, stressing that what was revealed on the Internet was not the truth, and would begin a civil and criminal investigation this week, "leaving the relevant facts to the search authorities and the court to find out the truth." "I would like to inform you of the results of the confirmation of the posts related to Kim Dong-hee that were disseminated online." "The post was first published in 2018, when the company confirmed it to the actors themselves and people associated with the school, and the result was that there was no such thing as school bullying."
In December 2021, Kim Dong-hee's legal representative once again said that the investigation results of the relevant departments proved that the so-called revelations on the Internet were malicious attacks against Kim Dong-hee, but Through this incident, Kim Dong-hee also deeply realized that his immature words and deeds in the past had hurt others and would strive to become a better person in the future.
Two-stage reversal
In January 2022, according to the latest revelations in the South Korean media, the case that the prosecutor found that there was no criminal suspicion and did not prosecute was not Kim Dong-hee's campus violence, but Kim Dong-hee's reputational damage case to the campus violence whistleblower.
According to the information, Kim Dong-hee confirmed the existence of campus violence, and he himself admitted to committing campus violence against others when he was investigated, but insisted that he only pushed or kicked the whistleblower, and did not threaten to kill the other party with scissors or paper cutters as the whistleblower advocated.
Kim Dong-hee's brokerage company has said that Through this incident, Kim Dong-hee deeply realized that his immature words and deeds had hurt others in the past, and would apologize and reflect deeply on it, but according to the whistleblower, he has not received any apologies from Kim Dong-hee himself or his brokerage company so far.