"Not True"... Mom Cafe Member Who Wrote '3-Term Lawmaker Involved' in Teacher's Death Deletes Post

Specific Rebuttal Emerges, Content Deleted
"Just Organized Rumors and Posted"

A member of a mom cafe who raised suspicions of ‘power harassment by a National Assembly member’s family living in a luxury apartment in Gangnam’ in connection with the extreme suicide of a teacher in her 20s who was in charge of the first grade at Seo-i Elementary School in Seocho-gu, Seoul, deleted the post saying “It is not true.”

A memorial rally is being held in front of Seoi Elementary School in Seocho-gu, Seoul on the afternoon of the 20th.
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Teacher A at Seo-i Elementary School passed away on the morning of the 18th at school due to an extreme choice. The news of A’s death began to spread in earnest on the 19th with claims that “a parent bullied the teacher, causing the young teacher to die.”

The power harassment controversy intensified after a post appeared that afternoon on a large Naver mom cafe with 410,000 members, stating that “a female student’s parent harassed the teacher.”

The author said that the parent demanded, “Do you know how great my family is?” and “Check and report whenever my daughter goes to the bathroom,” describing the harassment as “almost at the level of a maid.” The post continued, “Due to school violence related to the female student, the teacher was harassed by both parents and was summoned to the education office. The day after returning from there, the teacher committed suicide at school yesterday.”

Furthermore, the author claimed, “There is talk that the parent’s family is a three-term National Assembly member (said to live in Seocho ** Apartment). Because it is related to the granddaughter of a three-term National Assembly member, the education office is bending over backward, imposing an embargo to prevent news coverage, and meanwhile, they have hired a lawyer to destroy evidence and attempt settlements.” The author also alleged, “Meanwhile, Seo-i Elementary School is conducting school construction to cover up the homeroom teacher’s suicide.”

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The author of this post has written over 1,000 posts on this cafe alone. The post recorded tens of thousands of views only on this mom cafe and quickly spread across other community sites and Blind and other internet platforms.

The next morning, YouTuber Kim Eo-jun also supported the suspicion. On ‘Kim Eo-jun’s News Factory,’ he said, “It is known that a current politician is involved in the elementary school teacher’s extreme suicide case. I understand he is a three-term member of the People Power Party, but there has been no coverage at all.” The People Power Party Media Legal Team announced on the 21st that they would file a complaint with the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency against Kim for defamation by spreading false information.

Suspicions were raised against People Power Party lawmaker Han Ki-ho and Democratic Party lawmaker Seo Young-kyo. In response, Seo’s office denied the connection on Facebook, stating, “Seo Young-kyo’s daughter is unmarried,” and “We have no choice but to take legal action against malicious false information dissemination. We hope the false information will be deleted immediately.”

On the afternoon of the 20th, mourners are paying tribute to the late teacher Mr. A at a temporary memorial space set up at Seoi Elementary School in Seocho-gu, Seoul.
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Lawmaker Han also said, “I have four grandchildren in total, but none attend that school,” and “The child of the parent accused of power harassment is said to be a female student, but one of my granddaughters is a middle school student.” He added, “We will hold those who maliciously spread false information and defame through personal attacks legally accountable.”

In response, the author of the post changed the original title on the 20th to “Seo-i Elementary School Homeroom Teacher’s Suicide Related Seo-i Elementary School Statement, Absolutely Not a National Assembly Member.” They deleted all the specific content they had mentioned and said, “I gathered and organized stories circulating on the internet and posted them, but I didn’t expect it to spread this much. There was a speculative post that the parent’s family might be a National Assembly member, so I posted that too, but it is not true, so please do not misunderstand.”

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