the newspapers of South Korea They reported the disturbing case of a high school teacher who scolded and humiliated a student in front of the entire class for reading a volume of the manga Kenja no magician.
A young man took his own life because the teacher humiliated him in front of everyone for reading the Kenja No Wizard manga
On April 26, 2020, the high school ethics teacher Youngshin in the city of Pohang He was convicted of child abuse, sentenced to 10 months in prison, and his teacher’s license has been withdrawn for 5 years. The crime he is accused of is humiliating a ninth grade student in front of the entire class, after catching him reading a manga, causing the young man to take his own life through humiliation.
The teacher’s sentence caused controversy on social networks dE South Korea, with some readers accusing the teacher of intimidation and others expressing fear that the case would set a precedent that would scare other teachers, preventing them from being strict when necessary.
the tragic events that led to the premature death of the young man Kim Gun Woo occurred on March 25, 2019. During his ethics class, the teacher “caught” him by reading a copy of Kenja no magician, a manga by the Japanese author Tsuyoshi Yoshioka and illustrated by Shunsuke Ogata. Later research later revealed that the teacher asked the students to read a book, but the ethics teacher had a problem seeing the reading material from Kim.
After seeing that the illustrations of the manga Kim Gun Wooy, full of illustrations of young people in swimsuits, took the student to the front of the classroom and scolded him for reading an ecchi manga, accusing him of “seeing photos of girls in bikini”. as punishment, Kim He did push-ups, in front of his colleagues for 20 minutes.
When the ethics class ended, his classmates went out to the schoolyard to receive physical education, the humiliated Kim Gun Woo He stayed and wrote a message in his Ethics Book. It was the last thing he did before jumping out the fifth floor window and ending up with his own life…
In the last message of Kim Gun Woo We were able to read:
I don’t want to live anymore… Thank you for giving my colleagues a perfect excuse to make fun and intimidation. You don’t even know what the manga is. It’s a complete subculture, but you don’t care. How do you know they are inappropriate? I know I’m not to blame for this… but you’ve violated my privacy and I feel completely humiliated. Please don’t scold the classmate who lent me the book…
The police immediately began an investigation into the tragic disappearance of Kim In August 2019, and in light of the evidence found, the younger parents filed a complaint against the teacher. One year after the student’s death, the judge Shin Jin Woo of the District Court of Daegu He issued a verdict against the ethics teacher who was 10 months in prison and then 5 years with a suspended teaching license.
The judge stated:
The defendant is guilty of psychologically abusing the student and causing him to take his own life. In addition, considering that the defendant showed no interest in reaching an agreement with the victim’s family, the verdict was inevitable.
Sadly, the teacher did not regret his actions and instead blamed the child’s family for letting him Kim I read “books like this” at school. He also defended his previous history, telling the Court that “in all his years of school teaching, Kim He was the first to take his own life after being confronted.”
The prayer caused a heated debate on the social networks of South Korea, with some people praising the judge and accusing the teacher of intimidation and others claiming that the teacher didn’t really do anything wrong.
Some comments made by fans were as follows:
- true about the manga of distracting ourselves from the problems that life has, but not only the manga but the culture in general
- I read manga and watch anime but what the teacher did is fine, that material is not for you to take him to school and get scolded is not a reason for him to commit suicide
- no pos the boy is sucked sure he wanted to go to an isekai well mamalon so to be the hero and have his harem
- It’s good that they suspended the teacher
- fucking brat p*to, today’s noses are j*tica that shit on everything. Hopefully that good teacher will be released soon, and that the family of that suicidal son humiliates himself before the teacher and they compensate him financially.
- I think that the guy had time to commit suicide and took advantage of the event to blame the teacher, I have not heard, seen or experienced a suicide for something so “weak”, suicides are for something strong but in this case it is very stupid so That it was already something that he had surely raised, and it is not the teacher’s fault, much less that the student is “faggot” although if that were the whole previous event it is true if it is a little… very stupid.
- The teacher should not have done that, he deserved a punishment yes, but not to the point of doing what he did
- These teachers always have a problem, their actions are not for nothing
Kenja no magician It is a series of light novels written by Tsuyoshi Yoshioka and illustrated by Seiji Kikuchi. Its publication began in January 2015 on the website Shōsetsuka or Naro.
A manga adaptation written by Tsuyoshi Yoshioka and illustrated by Shunsuke Ogata began to be published on the site of Young Ace Up of Kadokawa Shoten As of March 2016.
The light novel had an anime adaptation produced by Silver Link. The anime is available in Crunchyroll for Latin America.
Synopsis of Kenja no magician:
A young man who had surely died in an accident was born in another world when he was a baby! After that, he was picked up by the patriot hero “Sage” Merlin Wolford and was given the name of Shin. He was raised as a grandson by Merlin and absorbed Merlin’s teachings by gaining surprising power. However, when he turned 15, his grandfather, Merlin said, “I forgot to teach you common sense.”
The fantasy life of another unconventional world of a “normal” child begins here!
