Some 27 percent of Korean young people have experienced cyber-bullying, with the many of cases occurring on messaging app KakaoTalk, a survey showed Monday.
According to the data, the online bullying included leaks of private information (12 percent), online game-based bullying (10 percent) and KakaoTalk-based bullying (8 percent). Other instances occurred in online chat rooms and through social network services or email.
Among those responsible, 37 percent responded they bullied others out of hatred against the victims. Others responded that they had no particular reason for doing so, or that they did so because it was fun.
The analysis by the National Youth Policy Institute (NYPI) described specific bullying strategies in detail. These included “prison talk” (repeatedly inviting a person to a group chat room), “bomb talk” (inviting a person to a group chat room and everyone else leaving the room simultaneously), and “cuss annihilation” (a group cussing at one person simultaneously).”
The data was a result of a survey on some 4,000 middle and high school students conducted from May to June. NYPI official Lee Chang-ho presented the analysis results at a National Assembly session on resolving online bullying issues.