The reaction of Thai and South Korean users of the network showed extraordinary solidarity to the victims. Many Koreans apologize openly, while others called for the driver to be subject to legal sanctions or information, it was published openly.
Nevertheless, this case is faced with a large wall: the lack of legal rules that criminalize verbal harassment in South Korea.
Currently, the country’s criminal law only punishes the physical persecution in the public sphere, while words that humiliate dignity or sexual tone are not classified as a violation of the law.
This makes activists and observers of human rights to encourage the Korean government to expand the sphere of protection of legislation against sex -based violence.
