Celebrities and athletes are facing public outrage, following a series of accusations of past bullying. Through this, we can see that the mental damage suffered during school days had not been properly resolved in time, and the trauma continues to remain even now, as an adult. School violence is nothing new, though the forms of harassment are becoming covert such as cyberbullying. Unfortunately, there still lacks a system to rescue and restore victims in the current educational system. The response system to school violence should be changed so that victims can return to their daily lives and don’t have lifelong trauma.

       The biggest problem with the current school violence response system is that the victims cannot easily reveal the bullying and schools are not concerned with the recovery of them. Yim Ji-young, the mother of Kwon Seung-min, a 13-year-old middle school boy who committed suicide in 2012 after being bullied by two classmates, pointed out that the school violence punishment process focuses on ‘punishment for perpetrators’ rather than ‘recovery of victims.’ "The School Violence Autonomous Committee (SVAC) wants to deal with the case quietly and quickly because there are a lot of charges and accusations against teachers and victims…When the punishment of the perpetrator is decided, it ends the incident just by saying ‘we solved one task’,” said Yim. In fact, one of the reasons why it is difficult to actively respond to school violence at an educational site is that both schools and teachers are subject to disciplinary action or some other penalty just because school violence occurred. The level of problem resolution varies greatly depending on how teachers respond to the school violence. However, it is difficult for teachers to consider only the victim's position because they may be being pressured from the parents of the perpetrator or a poor personnel evaluation. This is why some argue that improving the treatment of teachers to be free from disadvantages is also necessary. The method of suspending the perpetrator also does not elicit their reflection, but rather creates a vicious cycle in which the victim is harmed again. According to the Daegu Metropolitan Office of Education, out of 111 cases held in SVAC until August last year, the types of the punishments of perpetrators (including multiple types) was 139 cases of ‘no contact, intimidation, and retaliation,’ 79 cases of ‘volunteering,’ and 78 cases of ‘written apology.’ “There is no atmosphere to take care of the victim after the perpetrator was suspended, with only a written apology or a ban on contact. The perpetrators do not reflect on themself, and the victims become more outcast just because they opened the SVAC. In the end, there are cases where victim families look for transferring schools,” said a parent of a school violence victim in an interview with the Maeil Newspaper.

      A student who hurts other students deserves a punishment accordingly. However, school violence cannot be resolved by focusing only on the punishment of the perpetrators. In fact, it is almost impossible to eliminate school violence. No matter how good the education or how much careful attention is given, there are always some students who get crooked, and we cannot control them forcibly. Therefore, the most important thing is to save the victims before their wounds spread to larger burns. Hopefully, the victim will recover the wounds and go back to their daily lives, and 10 years from today, there will be no more people revealing past bullying. This depends on the change in the school violence response system.