“The audacity to indicate her face on TV in any case that she has executed…”
A viral theqoo publish has since uncovered an award-winning actress’s deep, darkish previous.
The publish, shared on January 21, 2025 (KST), highlighted actress Byun Joong Hee (or Byeon Jung Hee) as somebody who switched to appearing after following a totally completely different profession path most of her life.
In accordance with the publish, Byun Joong Hee was a center faculty biology trainer for 39 years earlier than she made her debut when she turned 65. Since then, she has taken on memorable supporting roles in in style Okay-Motion pictures and Okay-Dramas like Hidden Face, Taxi Driver, Mild Store, and the at present airing The Queen Who Crowns.
Her appearing profession has been constructing fairly effectively. Actually, in 2023, on the “2023 SBS Drama Awards,” Byun Joong Hee took residence the “Scene Stealer Award.”
However whereas sharing footage from her educating days, the publish ended up shedding gentle on the senior actress’s alleged self-discipline methodology of her college students: Excessive corporal punishment.
Underneath the hyperlink shared by the publish, a 2013 weblog entry from the official Seoul Metropolitan Workplace of Training, Byun Joong Hee is praised for being a “mom determine” to her male college students.
Ms. Byun Joong Hee, who began educating at Boin Center Faculty in 1976, has many ‘sons’ and refers to herself as being a ‘boy mother.’ It is because she has spent 37 years educating at an all-boys faculty. When she first began, there have been solely three feminine academics on the faculty. Again then, she was stitching for her college students—because the energetic and energetic center faculty boys would consistently rip their pants or lose the buttons on their uniforms. The loving act of stitching continues to today.
— Seoul Metropolitan Workplace of Training
Within the feedback, nonetheless, the teacher-turned-actress’s former college students have come ahead since 2022 and referred to as her out on the sheer act of violence that she would commit towards her so-called “sons.”
There’s a narrative that my husband tells me on a regular basis. It’s about his trauma from his faculty days. He stated that in eighth grade, at any time when he didn’t deliver his provides, his homeroom trainer would slap him throughout either side of the face so exhausting that his nostril would begin bleeding. She wouldn’t cease even when his uniform shirt would soak in blood. That broke his spirit and he by no means actually healed from it… So he was actually shocked to search out that she grew to become an actress. Sure, again within the day, bodily violence was used extra generally as a type of self-discipline. However her? She couldn’t management her anger, even when my husband would begin bleeding from each nostrils. Wanting on the different feedback… It appears like he wasn’t the one one who was slapped. Like, wow. She certain is one thing else.
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- “I particularly bear in mind her ordering me to deliver her these fried octopus snacks earlier than class would begin. I additionally do bear in mind her beating the coed so much… Haha. I graduated in 1997.”
- “She used to hit us with a steel rod that was wrapped with black tape. A real educating second for all.”
- “I graduated from Boin Center Faculty in 2005. If I bear in mind appropriately, she taught biology. And man, she beat up her college students a lot. The college itself had an issue with violent academics, although. Like all the academics had their selection of weapon. One in all them was like a martial arts sort, too. Anyway… I’ve by no means been overwhelmed up like I used to be overwhelmed up at Boin Center Faculty. And I’m from the Marines. Even the navy didn’t assault me like she did.”
The publish garnered nice consideration with a whole bunch of feedback debating whether or not Byun Joong Hee ought to even “be allowed to behave.” Slamming her for the shamelessness to indicate her face on tv after having traumatized her college students, Okay-Film and Okay-Drama followers expressed concern and disappointment.
- “If these are true, I hope she received’t get to behave anymore. That is horrible.”
- “I by no means thought she was all that good at appearing… So if any of that is true, she ought to lay low and reside out of the highlight.”
- “The audacity to indicate her face on TV in any case that she has executed…”
- “So the accounts of getting obtained corporal punishment from this girl didn’t all pop up without delay. It has been talked about for some time now. But she stored appearing… So blatantly shameless.”
- “Is she out of her thoughts?! After having executed what she did, she debuted as an actress? Actually???”
- “I ponder what she was like for them to check it to the Marines and say it was worse…”
Amid the rising criticism, Byun Joong Hee has not responded.