[theqoo] STRAY KIDS HYUNJIN'S SCHOOL VIOLENCE EXPOSE (FT. ALL 4 VICTIMS WERE FEMALE)

1. First exposer

I am someone who never imagined that a person named Hwang Hyunjin would debut as an idol and receive the attention, support, and even love of so many people. I could make the flimsy excuse that it was just childish behavior, but I am someone who was a victim of school violence by Hwang Hyunjin. As I said earlier, I never imagined he would become an idol, so I was unable to properly preserve concrete evidence. All I have are school verification, my memories, and testimonies from friends. If he had remained an ordinary person and never caught my eye, I would have buried those hellish times. But ever since Hwang Hyunjin debuted as an idol, every time I see him on TV, those memories come back to life and torment me. Watching entertainers who are currently tasting the bitter reality due to school violence controversies, I found the courage to speak up in the hope that he, too, will realize that he is not so righteous.

Hwang Hyunjin of Stray Kids is my middle school classmate, and in our second year of middle school we were in the same class. However, we were not close at all, over the course of a year, we barely exchanged more than ten words. Despite that, I was subjected to what is commonly called school violence, without even knowing the reason. Even now, I cannot understand what kind of hostility he had toward me to do such things.

The second reason is that at our school, lunch carts came to the front of the classroom, so portions were fixed, and distribution problems often occurred. One day, after lunch had been distributed, there was not enough food, so my friend who was on lunch duty did not receive a full portion. I shared my lunch with that friend since I had received relatively more. However, ignoring the fact that I had shared my meal with a friend who lacked food, he criticized and mocked me with an absurdly childish reason: “I don’t like that you get more food. Because of you, other kids can’t eat.” (These two reasons were things said to me via KakaoTalk on the day of the incident.)

Based on these two reasons, toward the end of winter in my second year of middle school, I was suddenly invited into a class group chat that I had not been part of. There, Hwang Hyunjin and several male students hurled verbal a**se at me, including insults like “you’re the same” and “you’re like that because you don’t have a mother,” along with SH and insults to my parents.

At the time, I was out eating with my family and on my way home, so I didn’t immediately check the incessantly buzzing messages full of mockery and insults. It was only after a friend called me, telling me to check my messages, that I did. As expected, the messages that greeted me were sneers from Hwang Hyunjin and the male students he incited, saying things like, “Why aren’t you checking KakaoTalk? Are you scared?”

These memories were fading, but after Hwang Hyunjin debuted, every time he appeared on TV, it felt as if the baseless criticism and mockery from that time echoed again. I realized that I had never truly erased those memories. Compared to other victims, I thought what I experienced might not have been that severe, so I believed I had forgotten it. But seeing the face of the perpetrator who hurt me back then around me again made the words and actions done purely to mock me resurface with chilling clarity. Just because it wasn’t “severe” does not mean that the baseless verbal abuse inflicted on me never existed. Even now, the violence inflicted due to the senseless incitement of a 15-year-old, despite knowing it was wrong, remains an inescapable pain for me.

I believe violence can never be justified for any reason.
I hope that violence committed under the excuse of being young is not justified, and I ask for a direct apology.

From the time he first told me he planned to debut, it seemed as though he did not want to leave evidence. He took the lead in inciting the boys and har***ing me, yet when it came time to step back, or when posts were made publicly on social media, it appeared he had left himself an escape route.

I honestly don’t remember how school life passed until the grade changed after that. Every time I went to school, I was subjected to baseless provocation and mockery. The rolling paper we wrote at the end of the school year was filled with humiliating words and ridicule. I decided on my own that there was no reason to keep it anymore and that it only caused pain, so without telling anyone, I threw it away after returning home.

The mockery from Hwang Hyunjin and others gradually made my 15-year-old self shrink, and going to school every day became a source of anxiety. Still, what allowed me to endure was my friends and family who stayed by my side as if nothing had changed. I endured each day, waiting for time to pass so the grade and class would change. As the school year changed, I gradually forgot the incident and was able to regain a peaceful school life.

I was not someone who was usually quiet or unable to express my opinions confidently, so it might seem like I wouldn’t have been greatly affected. However, the mockery, verbal ab**e, SH, and insults to my parents, from many people under Hwang Hyunjin’s leadership were far more than a 15-year-old like me could handle beyond a few initial exchanges, and I soon fell into a state of panic.

Because of this, after the first few messages, I no longer had the capacity to deal with Hwang Hyunjin, so my older sister and brother responded to his KakaoTalk messages pretending to be me. When the argument lost steam due to the involvement of the two adults, it ended inconclusively, and I left the group chat. However, after that, the baseless mockery in class, comments about wanting to hit me, hostile looks, and provocations, became even worse.

In addition to the KakaoTalk messages on the day of the incident, I later confirmed through screenshots from a friend that posts humiliating me had been uploaded to KakaoStory, led by Hwang Hyunjin. After seeing this, I couldn’t understand what I had done wrong or why a boy I had barely spoken to for an entire year harbored such malice toward me. Out of frustration, I initially said, “If you have so much to say, don’t do it over KakaoTalk, say it to my face. Come out in front of the school now. If you can’t, then call me.” However, he refused with the excuse, “I can’t go out because my mom is crying,” and continued to mock me on KakaoTalk together with the male classmates.

OP: The reason he talked was because he wanted (me?) to close the back door

(Friend?): ? Ah 

OP: (He told me) "Why do you eat so much.... "

Friend: Crazy. Ah ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅎㅋㅎㅋㅎㅋㅋ Wow don't tell me that you kept the door opened?

OP: Yup, he failed at picking at me and I remember him sitting in the last row

Friend: He should be the one closing the door behind him, show some consideration to people sitting at the back 

OP: Then the next day, I came to school and he said that he wanted to beat me up. Do you remember?

Friend: That was crazy, I remember 

OP: Then I told him "hit me then" and he said "You're gonna snitch me" ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ

Friend: True, you told him to try to hit you 

OP: And then the next day, the classroom's atmosphere got f*cking tense... You remember that guy who failed his grade

Friend: Ah ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ That guy who failed his 1st year. I remember (Hyunjin) is close to him. He'd gather people like him and go smoke~

Friend: They weren't talking about beating you up, but more fighting you with words. Ah and I remember, they made this group chat and they were f*cking talking sh*t about you, but then you called them 

OP: I told them I'd come but they didn't and he said his mom was crying

Friend: You were telling them to come out to speak with you and he refused saying his mom is crying

OP: He honestly didn't even pick up the phone 

Friend: it's so funny how they were going on and on about "the brat in my house" ㅋㅎㅋㅎㅋㅎㅋㅎㅋㅋㅎㅋㅎㅋㅎㅋㅋ And the moment the kid they were tormenting in their Katalk calls them, they're not taking the call and said their mom is crying

OP: Right? They were all bullying me as a group 

Friend: I'm just f*cking impressed 

OP: ㅎ.... I know right 

Friend: ㅋㅋㅋㅎㅋㅋㅋㅋㅎㅋㅎㅋㅎㅋㅎㅋ Right f*ck, it was just a bunch of men ganging up against one girl 

OP: When you were in middle school 2nd year, Hwang Hyunjin made comments instigating other kids in the class against me through Katalk. Do you remember him bullying me with the most random reasons. I actually think he had no reason ^^...

Friend: Yup, I remember, you're right. I actually don't remember the reason either. It must've been something trivial 

OP: Can you let me know if you remember what the reason was? I just remember there was something on Katalk. Even if it's trivial 

Friend: Yeah, I'm sure there's something 

OP: He instigated other boys in the class to swear at me 

OP: There was something in the group chat of our class back then. All the kids were in there, and there were a couple of boys close to him. I remember they said something about doing something against you 

2. 2nd exposer 

- He swore at me because I was "fat and ugly" and I caught his eye too much.  I was young then, so I didn't think about keeping evidence. I know there are many people who won't believe me without evidence, but please believe my words.

- I was in the same class as him in my first year and different class from my 2nd year onwards. I'm not familiar with what OP (exposer 1)  talked about, but I know Hwang Hyunjin is someone who will just swear at kids he didn't like. He will make it super obvious when he hates you 

This is my student ID proof 

3. Third exposer

The post was first made on Everytime.co.kr but later she wrote a post on Pann 

Title: Stray Kids Hwang Hyunjin 

He's indeed a school violence assailant. I was one of his victims. I'm not the same person as the writer who made the popular post (exposer 1). I don't care if JYP tries to report me either. I'm trying to gather all the proofs right now. 

Reader 1: Is this real.......?

- I'm asking if this is real..........? I liked Hwang Hyunjin since Back Door, but this is real? How did he torment you.....? If this is real, this is crazy no?

Reader 2: Hul I used to be a fan 

Reader 3: The school violence controversies are coming out so heavily lately ㅋㅋ They should've led a good life instead

OP: I can show my graduation photo, and I was seriously bullied for an entire year. Because of some reason like ‘not blocking the school festival performance,’ I was called things like ‘fat pig,’ had insults involving my parents thrown at me, and endured countless instances of mockery in group chats. During class and breaks, he mocked me in subtle ways while pretending it wasn’t about me (he would deliberately tease someone with the same name as mine, using my name, because I was ostracized). There were countless times like that. Back then I was taking medication, and it was really hard.

The person mentioned on Nate Pann might be able to refute things, but I probably can’t. Does he even remember me? For a while, because of anxiety and depression, I couldn’t even function properly in daily life

Hello. I previously posted a post on Everytime, and I deleted that post in order to write this one. I am a victim who suffered school violence from Hwang Hyunjin of Seongnae Middle School, Class 2-2, whom I was in the same class with.

It was so painful that I even had thoughts of s****de, and trying to recall those truly hellish memories again makes my hands shake and fills me with fear.

Ever since this person, who was my perpetrator, debuted, every time I see him on TV, the bad memories from back then resurface, causing me severe mental pain to the point that it has been difficult to live my daily life even until now.

Because I failed to block a ball at a school sports competition, he verbally ab**ed me and hurled insults describing my body at me.
Because I failed to stop a soccer ball, I became ostracized, and even after that, I received a lot of mockery, contempt, and ha****sment from Hwang Hyunjin.

In group chats, he mentioned me countless times, saying things like, “Is that you (my name)?” or “You act like ○○,” using my name to joke around with others.
There were many incidents like this, and every time I saw that group chat, I could do nothing. I fell into depression, and later I became so scared that I couldn’t even enter the group chat anymore. My self-esteem hit rock bottom.

Not only that, he would change the surname of a classmate who had the same name as me and then laugh and enjoy watching the reactions of others (because I was ostracized in class, most people disliked me). This has remained an unforgettable and deeply painful wound for me even now. No matter how much I want to wash it away, I still can’t, and no matter how much I try to forget, I can’t. Because of the shock, wounds, and trauma I suffered, even now I have difficulty trusting people and interacting with them.

I was someone who lived quietly and couldn’t clearly express when I disliked something, so I want to say that even writing this took an enormous amount of thought and courage. It would have been extremely difficult to do this alone, but seeing the people around me who support me, I gathered the courage to speak up.

I am a victim, not someone stirring things up for no reason, and I did not have any relationship that would justify writing malicious rumor-based posts.
I was subjected to one-sided attacks without being able to say a single word.

Although I do not have definitive physical evidence, I am a living witness with not a single lie, and I am gathering testimonies from other classmates.
I apologize that these are only words without concrete evidence.
What I am writing here is exactly what I experienced. Because I did not want to keep the memories of how unbearably painful it was back then, painful enough to make me want to d*e, I do not have screenshots, recordings, or videos, but I would like to state that there are acquaintances who can testify.

A lot of time has passed, and as I try to recall and write things out one by one, there are surely parts I’ve missed. Still, for now, I have written down my pain based on the facts of what I actually experienced. Thank you for reading this long post.

I have always made great efforts to live brightly in order to wake up from this nightmare-like dream, but as long as that person continues to appear in front of my eyes, it feels like I still cannot escape the nightmare.

I did not write anything that I do not clearly remember, and I can confidently say that there is not a single bit of falsehood or exaggeration in what I have written.

The first and second photos are of the same person, a friend I was close to in middle school. This is the content of messages we exchanged after they contacted me today upon seeing the article.
The third is another friend who was in the same class as me.

OP: I got bullied by him right

Friend: Right, if you have anything to say, you can send something to JYP. But you really don't have any material to show...?

OP: None ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ

Friend: When I saw that article, the first thing I thought about was (..) 

OP: Who knew he was gonna become a celebrity? Otherwise I would've kept proofs 

Friend: (continuing from before) When we were going to the reading room during our school years, you said you had to stop by home, so I was waiting in the apartment hallway. And I remember you closed the door and came out saying "mom I love you"

OP: Yeah 

Friend: And I remember back then I said "you should say that directly to your mom" and you said you were having such a hard time that you didn't know when you'll d*e and you had so many thoughts that you had to say it 

OP: True, I was having such a hard time 

Friend: But this is so upsetting, I still remember this so vividly, and I remember everything you said... 

OP: Do you remember how he made others bully me too? And I didn't have a single friend in the class ㅠ 

Friend: I don't remember him making others bully you, but I remember him swearing at you and making fun of your name with other male students with the same name as you 

- I remember the reactions of those male students too 

- And I remember you weren't openly mad about it but you we're unnerved... And Hwang  Hyunjin would just giggle 

4. +++ Fourth exposer

"I've been thinking about this a lot since yesterday.

A close younger friend sent me the link, so I found out it was trending again, and after that I stayed up all night reading comments and posts and couldn’t really sleep. This is my first time writing something like this on Nate Pann, so please understand if it's a bit messy.

First of all, what I want to make clear is that I am not the same person as the writer who posted the recent expose.

And the content of that post is not false.

I went to the same elementary and middle school as Hwang Hyunjin, so I knew him back then. At the time, I had dated one of his friends, broke up, and then dated another friend.

Among the girls who were close to Hwang Hyunjin, there was one who would always badmouth me whenever my boyfriend changed. She first mocked me on social media for dating different guys, and the next day, she (along with Hwang Hyunjin, other girls, and a few boys) came to the front of my class and laughed at me, saying things like we were ‘trash dating trash,’ openly ridiculing us.

At that time, I already knew what was going on from friends and tried to ignore it. While I was doing that, Hwang Hyunjin approached me first and talked to me.

He asked, ‘You're dating again?’ I ignored him and kept doing what I was doing, but he said, ‘Yah, are you ignoring me? I'm asking you.’ So I replied, ‘Why is this your business?’

That seemed to make him angry, and he shouted, ‘You f***ing b**ch, do you want to get hit?’ and rushed at me like he was about to hit me, until a few friends stopped him. I couldn't say anything at the time, and I remember crying in shock while a friend hugged me.

Then, in my third year of middle school, Hwang Hyunjin and about a dozen other boys suddenly got involved in something that had nothing to do with them, just because I wrote a post on Facebook saying I thought the situation was ridiculous.

After that, a bunch of posts insulting me suddenly started going up on Facebook all at once. Those are the screenshots you're seeing."

"A: What is happening? I'm curious

Hyunjin: She has men issues and is f*cking dirtyㅋㅋ

B: Talk to me on Facebook Messenger

Hyunjin: Ok hyung

C: What did she do?

D: ??"

"OP: I was just gonna ignore him. But Hwang Hyunjin looked at me and was like 'You're dating again?' 

- Anyone could see that he was mocking meㅋㅋㅋㅋ That's why I ignored him

A: The reason why you were a victim of school violence in the first place was...

OP: He said 'Yah, are you ignoring me? I'm asking you' so I said 'It's none of your business'

- He was the only one accelerating things and suddenly goes 'You f***ing b**ch, do you want to get hit?' And he rushed towards me but the other kids stopped him

- I was crying so XX was hugging and comforting me"

"Some friends contacted me asking if I was okay, so I checked what was going on. I first took down the post I had written and then went through those posts and comments. Not only boys I actually knew, but even boys whose faces I barely recognized were joining in and insulting me. That made me the angriest.

So I contacted one of those boys and asked him, ‘Do you even know me? Why are you talking trash about me when you don't?’ Then Hwang Hyunjin stepped in, saying, ‘Why are you telling ○○ what to do?’ and even mentioned my real name and made another post about it. The comment you're seeing is from under that post."

Hyunjin: What the? Why are you telling XX what to do?

"I didn't feel any sincerity, so I didn't want to lose either and replied back with ‘Oh, hi.’

And this is a conversation I had with the friend who posted the first expose yesterday, this is the first time I've ever shared it.

Since people might say this is fabricated too, I'm just uploading screenshots with the name and photo blurred. I'm not close with this person at all; I literally only knew that this person existed at my school. I even got their contact information indirectly and contacted them for the first time.

There was another friend who knew about what had happened between me and this person back then, and through them I found out that this person was the original poster. That friend also knew that something like this had happened to me when I was in middle school, and that’s how the story came up."

Message: 

A: XX-ah

OP: Yup yup

A: You know people are playing politics by claiming all the exposed individuals besides you and me are the same person, right?

OP: I know

- First of all, are you ok?

A: So if you want to prove it's not the same person and there are multiple victims, how about you post something saying it's not the same person...?

"And I've posted about these incidents before on the Jjukbbang Cafe, once when Hwang Hyunjin was still a trainee, and once after he debuted.

When I posted it during his trainee days, I didn't mention his name, so it was quickly buried.

When I posted again after his debut, it wasn't uploaded directly by me; a cafe member helped me by posting it on my behalf"

"On the way, a friend whispered to me that those boys had come looking for me, and when they couldn't find me, they kicked my desk and cursed before leaving. At lunchtime, Hwang Hyunjin and some soccer team boys came rushing over, cursing at me and even using sexual insults, and when I started crying, they all laughed and mocked me even more.

Even then, Hwang Hyunjin sat on a chair right in front of me, leaning back and laughing, saying it was funny. I still remember crying with my head down from that lunchtime incident until the end of school. I hated all of them, Hwang Hyunjin and the other boys, equally. Not a single one apologized after that.

When I heard the rumor that Hwang Hyunjin had become a trainee after middle school, I briefly went to his all-boys high school's entrance ceremony to see a friend. I ran into Hwang Hyunjin, and he casually said "Hi," which I still remember. I guess he felt anxious about being a trainee.

My friend stayed by me because I was crying, and Hwang Hyunjin's friends even pushed a desk into my thigh. Until I graduated middle school, I never got an apology or even a word from them, and then he greeted me with a "hi" as a trainee.

I felt he was insecure and just gauging my reaction, so I couldn't just ignore it and replied back, "Hi.""

"When I posted the article after he debuted, it wasn't me who directly posted it, it was organized and posted by a cafe member who helped me. The only possible evidence I had was a few remaining Facebook screenshots from that time and my own account, so I remember sending the screenshots and explaining everything in as much detail as possible. (I never posted anything on Instiz.)

At that time, Hwang Hyunjin, a former girlfriend I had met twice during middle school (not the friend whose real name appeared on the SNS), and I were attending the same high school. That friend had spent all three years of middle school mocking me because my boyfriend changed frequently, so when I learned she was still talking about me behind my back, it made things even harder. That's why I deleted the post, withdrew from the cafe, and removed all the photos.

I deleted them because I was overwhelmed, not because the post was proven to be fake. I also never deleted anything because the company contacted me about a lawsuit, at that time, I never received a single message from the company.

There are still circulating screenshots of comments criticizing my usual behavior and claiming that my experiences were fabricated or exaggerated. Yes, I know I wasn't entirely quiet and did things as a minor that I shouldn't have. However, I never treated a junior like that, and regarding the motorcycle, at the time of posting, it belonged to my boyfriend. I only rode it to go to school, drop by the nearby study room, or occasionally go out, legally with a proper license.

"I'm not sure... it seems like there are more circulating screenshots with censored text that could support the idea that Hwang Hyunjin was that kind of person, so I'm attaching the original as well. If my story were false or exaggerated, how could anyone have identified me and left those comments when none of my personal information was included at the time I posted the article? Also, many comments did confirm that Hwang Hyunjin was indeed that kind of person, so I don't understand why that's all being ignored."

"The reason I deleted my post was because some people claimed the screenshots were manipulated and even captured my Instagram posts, digging into my personal info, bringing up my then-boyfriend, and turning the story around to make it seem like I was the problem. It was so stressful and frightening that I even canceled my meeting with the YTN reporter the day before, and I told the person who helped me organize and post my story that I couldn’t handle it anymore and asked them to delete it.

I changed my phone twice during that time, so I no longer have the text messages I exchanged with the reporter, but I still have the contact info, so I'm attaching that at least."

"A graduation photo seems to be the must-have proof. I don't know if this proves anything but I'll attach it here"

5. Fifth exposer

One of the victims disclosed text messages exchanged with a friend during the period when they were being bullied by Hwang Hyunjin (2014).

"Yeah, I'm having it so hard and I want to d**. I'm sorry for worrying you. Sorry for purposely pretending to be calm"

"- It's hard to pretend to be calm

- I'm pretending to be calm every day

- I'm f*cking sad

- I want to transfer schools.. Please save me.."

"To avoid any misunderstanding, I should add that he was certainly one of the perpetrators, and there were others too. But I only posted the actions that led to the mocking and bullying that followed.

I wasn't being bullied before that.

After that sports day, everyone started avoiding me. Even friends who used to be close distanced themselves.

The group that first made fun of me and turned me into a laughingstock was just him and his friends. The rest were either bystanders or kids who just laughed along."

original post: here

1. His fans are f*cking disgusting. They are still trying to defend him through the commentsㅋㅋㅋㅋ

2. The singer and fans are all the same. Just look at the comments here

3. As expected, this is why you need fans~

4. Here's Hyunjin's handwritten apology letter. He apologized and admitted it. He was also exposed in the news over the school violence controversy.

"Stray Kids Hyunjin, halts activities due to school violence scandal"

"Hello, this is Stray Kids’ Hyunjin.

First of all, I sincerely apologize to those who were hurt by my improper actions during my school years. Looking back on times when I was more lacking, I am embarrassed and have no excuse. I have realized that my actions and words that did not know how to be considerate of others have hurt others. It is too late, but I will deeply reflect on myself.

Whether it was intended or not, I don’t think I can be forgiven at all for giving unforgettable to pain to someone.

I am deeply reflecting on myself as I know well that just because I apologized and they accepted the apology doesn’t mean that the pain I gave in the past will be erased entirely.

Although this is shameless, I want to express gratitude to those who were hurt by me for allowing me to directly meet them to belatedly apologize and ask for forgiveness through this letter.

If there happen to be others who have been hurt by my improper actions during my school years who I cannot meet directly, I want to express my apologies at least through writing like this.

I sincerely apologize for causing deep disappointment to the many people who have supported me."

CR: Soompi

5. He admitted it and apologized. The victims absolutely cannot forgive him. If they respond by saying they never received an apology, that's one thing, but he apologized in his statement and said he reflected on the past

6. It's because of him that I can't bring myself to be interested in Stray Kids. The issue is that other idols with bullying scandal will all use him as an example to crawl back and promote and it makes me furious

7. I saw Felix and decided to join their fandom but because of him, I took a step back

8. An iljin idol... so annoying

9. I'm not his fan, but if that idol had gone to the victim to apologize (+financial compensation), reflected on their actions, and properly posted an apology when the incident happened, the reaction would probably be different now. JYP also got hit by a boomerang because they did too much personality marketing. Personally, I like other JYP idols, but Stray Kids made me stop listening to their songs because of this incident

10. He was the popular member that screwed up all of the 'JYP = personality' image

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