It's a global issue, or issues, with varying degrees per country and culture.
Here in the Philippines, we've been topping global surveys in school and youth bullying for years now, and barely anything was done.
Korea the worst? Not really. According to these studies, the Philippines is far worse than Korea. Like, bullying in Korea is nothing compared to bullying in the Philippines.
The difference is, bullying is Korea is easily exposed because they have forums that they all converge in. Here in the Philippines, it rarely gets exposed because we rely on US-based platforms that hides these content by their algorithms. Not only that, you need a very solid evidence like an unedited video. Our policy is "innocent until proven guilty", the burden-of-proof is on the accuser. Which is correct and proper otherwise, we will end up with something like Korea where you are guilty until proven innocent, which is very toxic and a humae rights violation.
But, as usual, the youth are wiser these days than the generations before it. They are more aware of the laws, so they make sure no one can record and gather definitive proofs. Which results in bullying and other crimes not getting investigated.
We do have juvenile laws too. But guess what? It's being abused by parents as well as their criminal kids.
We have an anti-hazing law. The only thing it did is people found ways to keep hazing hidden and harder to prove. Ways where there won't be physical marks, for example.
We may not have killer students, drug network in schools, or an automechanic school turned gang haven, but we have other forms of bullying happening. Oh, during my time in the 80s and 90s, there were gangs in schools, we had inter-school wars (physical), and inter-gang fights off-school. I've seen schoolmates bring balisong (a Batangenyo knife) in schools.
I only survived because I studied them and learned how to keep them at arms length. But my Grade 7 was the worst. I literally got into a fight with a bully. Well, I challenged him and set all the conditions, because it was the only way to make him stop, then I made sure he'll be caught on the act punching me. 🤣🤣 It was still painful, I took a lot punches before the school authorities showed up.
But not everyone can think the way I did. And it is not applicable in every case. I even built my own network, which made the bullies choose not to cross me because I'll block them from my "services". 🤣🤣 (And they can't touch those in my network.)
That's how I survived and protected others because I got fed up with bullies. And very few people know it because without evidence, it's a baseless accusation and a defamation case. That's why it's not getting exposed here in the Philippines. Some bullying gets exposed because the bully became careless or someone died.
Accoqding to Program for International Student Assessment (PISA, up to 67% Filipino students experienced bullying in one formr another, but in Korea, only up to10%.
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