Task 5: Newspaper Article - fabrefaction 2.0

BULLYING KILLS AGAIN

SEOUL, South Korea, Friday – Kang Sejun, 15-year-old boy has been found dead on Friday night. The young teen had committed suicide by hanging himself of the ceiling fan in his bedroom.

Lee Youngsoon (37), had found her son only after returning from grocery shopping in the evening. His mother reads his suicide note as she has countless times since his death. In the note describes how he had been endlessly harassed and abused by boys in his class, being strangled to suffocation with his school tie around his neck and burned with the ends of cigarette sticks. At the end of the letter he says: “I love you mum. I’ll be joining dad up there so please do not be sad that I’m no longer around. I’ll patiently wait for you.”

Lee had no clue that her son was going through this ordeal. “He had always been such a sweet-natured child, I can’t believe…” Lee paused as she lost composure, “Why didn’t he tell me anything?”

Following Kang’s death, Lee had also stated that the school is also at fault. “Given just three months ago, another girl of the same age had taken her own life because of bullying but no legal action was taken against it so it happened again. The school is wrong for covering up just because they do not want to be shamed.”