"Teacher, Do You Feel Relieved?" KAIST Parent's Harsh Words: "Now I'm the Victim"

After Identity Revealed, Expresses Opinions on Blog
"First Book Also Faced Online Harassment"

After the identity of a parent who verbally abused a pregnant public kindergarten teacher, claiming to have graduated from KAIST four years ago, was revealed online, the parent posted an angry message on their blog saying, “Kindergarten teacher, look at this. Now, do you feel relieved?”

On the 16th, parent A posted a lengthy message titled “Emotions Scribbled on My Blog ? Anger and Lament,” beginning with, “Now, on top of everything, my first-ever book published last year is being terrorized on online bookstores.”

They said, “My soul-wrenching writing hasn’t even been fully read, yet I’m receiving over 30,000 malicious comments and indiscriminate low-star rating attacks.”

[Photo by A from blog]

After their identity was revealed online, some raised suspicions of academic fraud, claiming that A’s statement about graduating from the KAIST College of Business was false. In response, A said, “It’s not that I graduated from the KAIST Graduate School of Business; I dropped out, and I clearly stated that in my book.” They added, “In the kindergarten teacher’s recording, I was vague because I hadn’t graduated. I always told people around me that I only studied for one year.”

Then, A retorted to the kindergarten teacher, “Now, do you feel relieved?”

They said, “From the beginning, there were many ways to contact me, like KakaoTalk or phone calls, or even requesting a one-on-one apology. This happened in 2019, a full four years ago. If you had told me over the phone how you felt, I would have apologized directly, saying, ‘I didn’t know you felt that way. I’m sorry.’”

They also said, “At that time, my child was a kindergartener, so I was just asking because there were many things to take care of,” and asked, “Aren’t the text messages I sent before the call conversations that any kindergarten teacher or mother could reasonably exchange?”

A expressed, “I’m embarrassed that I raised my voice about my academic background back then, and looking back now, I do feel sorry to the teacher,” but also expressed frustration, saying, “The recordings were edited several times in a matter of minutes, making me look like a woman who was recklessly angry and constantly abusing her power.”

They then questioned, “Look at the situation I’m in now. At this point, who is the victim and who is the perpetrator?”

They continued, “This happened in a classroom without CCTV. I raised my voice when I was repeatedly hurt by things like the feelings a young child would have. I briefly mentioned my academic background out of frustration because they kept denying emotional abuse, but no one considered that process at all,” explaining their stance on mentioning their academic background.

In closing, A requested, “If there are any lawyers out there, could you look into punitive damages for me?” As of the 17th, the post has been set to private.

Earlier, on the 1st, public kindergarten teacher B revealed in an interview with a media outlet that they had been continuously harassed by parent A four years ago, releasing recorded phone conversations and text messages.

In the recordings, A said, “Where did you study? Now? I graduated from KAIST College of Business and even got an MBA, and we did it like that. Are parents who graduated from KAIST the problem? Is it really okay to keep acting like this?” Additionally, A frequently contacted the teacher, reportedly sending as many as 28 text messages in a single day.

Teacher B, who was pregnant at the time, had kept recordings and text messages for years in case A filed a child abuse complaint. After the death of a teacher at Seoul Seoi Elementary School sparked calls for protecting teachers’ rights, B decided to make the recordings public.

Subsequently, it became known online that A runs a blog related to childcare and education and has published books. Netizens searched for A’s books on online bookstore sites and left low ratings and critical reviews, conducting a “star rating attack.”

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