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I said lose their career and their freedom, as in jail: not kill them.

I do not agree that it is a matter of being "willing" to forgive or not. I say this both as a retired psychiatric nurse and as someone with a history of personal trauma.

Sincere amends could have been tried to be made when he was still in school, shortly after some of the incidents occurred. He obviously did not do that.Some of them were criminal, though, and no amends can make up for those.

Clearly he was not a law abiding citizen.

Depending on what was done, it is most certainly appropriate for someone to lose their career and their freedom. A society that lacks consequences for bad behaviour, particularly those that involve harming others, would not last for long...

A teenager (which is when he did what he did) in the jurisdictions I'm familiar with would not need a personality disorder diagnosis to be tried as an adult for certain crimes, particularly murder and those of a sexual nature.

The DSM does not actually list psychopathy as a diagnosis. What you seem to be referring to might be diagnosed in a number of ways based on behaviours. The range could go from Objective-Defiant Disorder to Anti-Social Personality Disorder. Again, they are not required nor would they exonerate someone from being held accountable for crimes.

Broadly speaking, the only mental defence which will lead to a person being considered not responsible for their actions is if it can be determined that they were in a state of psychosis at the time.

You have your opinion. I have mine. My hope is that his victims take precedence over him and his career.

I'm a retired psychiatric nurse and studies on adolescents do not show that, at all.

I wouldn't worry about it until 5 minutes or so beforehand. Even then, it's in GMMTV's hands. Breathe, sweeties, breathe!

QUOTE: "Is doing that will make the victims feel better ? For being a former victim of bullying and sexual harrasment... The answer is no."

Again, you have every right to answer that question for yourself, as I did in my own life. You do not have the right to answer it on their behalf.

Ji Soo made choices to act in certain ways. Actions have consequences.

I'm sure it will be there

Before I started the series, I knew that he had not acted before and I've marvelled at his ability. I agree that he outperforms some of the industry's more established actors. Earth has known him for a long time and it was Earth who encouraged Mix to apply for the role. Earth must have seen Mix's potential...

Considering how stacked against the victims Korean culture can be for any meaningful justice, then I'm OK that they are at least able to expose this man for what he did. A number of his actions would qualify as crimes and from a developmental standpoint he should have been aware that what he was doing was very wrong at the time. His made choices to do those things. We reap what we sow...

What you did to process your bullying experiences is your business. Just because you got over something does not give you the right to decide that any other victim should do what you did. A number of the actions coming to light qualify as actual crimes. You talk about the "way the world runs" I will be blunt: It is thanks to attitudes like the ones you've demonstrated that things don't change. Congratulations on coming off as both callous and cynical.

I have yet another question for any Thai speakers who'd care to answer:

In the Video, around the 9:20 mark, Earth is speaking and P'Aof interrupts. He say (translation): "We could say swear words here, right? (Earth said pronouns in swear words earlier) He further says "a few were said already" and Earth goes "oh! I'm sorry!"

Would someone mind identifying and explaining swearing pronouns? We English speakers have such a short and seemingly dull (LOL) list of pronouns compared to Thai. We certainly don't have one that constitutes as a swearword.

Thank you in advance for any help you can offer! =)

So very true

Consider looking at more information before you start defending someone accused of all the things that are coming to light...

Again:

The enormous stigma and loss of face the victims would be exposed to in going public and pressing charges would likely compound their suffering. Korea has a long history of those with senior social status, wealth, connection, etc. being able to get away treating "inferiors" in horrible and criminal ways, because they know that the accusers have to endure so much to even seek legal remedy.

You can bet that Ji Soo was being advised either by personal or company lawyers to write that "apology." It is doubly cynical in that they would have advised Ji Soo to concretely deny each accusation and threaten legal action of his own if he were innocent...

Since the "apology" was what was produced, his legal advisors were likely of the opinion that to try and deny any of the accusations would only open the door for additional legal jeopardy for Ji Soo. So, Ji Soo issues his statement but the hidden message is "accept his, because we know you're too intimidated to try and take this further."

The entertainment company was trying to seek direct contact with accusers. Is that because they are interested in their suffering? Given historical examples, it is far more likely so that they can do risk assessments for each accuser and offer them hush money to go away.

PS: You compound you error by attempting to delete your posts. You'd do yourself more credit by posting that you were rethinking what you said.

Pity...