Nowadays, Many celebrities are suffered from "witch hunt" in Korea.
Witch hunt means that many people push someone who have had a mistake into the corner.
The origin of witch hunt is from the middle ages in Europe. When the whole country is plunged in confusion because of infectious disease and religion, authorities announced people to kill witches who caused confusion. Although there had no witches, authorities put the blame to many people because they wanted to win popularity using it. In other words, this word is used as situation that a group victimize someone to cover up bad things.
Nowadays, this word is used in the cyber society. At the first, witch hunt of celebrities is usually used to cover up politician's big issues. Therefore, if some politicians have had a big problem, they have issued big gossip of celebrities and tried to attract people's eyes to celebrities. That is, celebrities are victimized. it is still using to cover up political problems.
A modified witch hunt appear in modern cyber society. The suspects are netizens, who write their comment on the internet. this modified one is targeted not only celebrities but also citizen. If someone do a mistake or have a misunderstanding situation, netizens are starting to put them into the corner blindly. The problem is that some netizens don't know the reasons, but they do attack because of fun and mob. As a result, many people who are targeted suicide or suffered from them more and more.
Today, one celebrity in Korea suicide because of witch hunter. (she have already had a bipolar) It is already many times happened, but netizens do not realized that they aroused this situation. They should realize that their comments for fun can make people die and give them hurts.
Please don't judge other people easily and talk about that. Don't judge person after listening to one side of the story and have a comment and make a mob.
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