South Korean performer DJ Soda has disclosed that she was sexually assaulted when she was six years previous. She additionally criticised the tradition of victim-blaming.
The 35-year-old, whose actual identify is Hwang So-hee, revealed on social media on Aug 14 that she was groped and sexually harassed whereas performing at the Osaka Music Circus Festival in Japan on Aug 13.
She hit again at netizens who blamed her for carrying revealing clothes in one other put up later that day.
“Does being sexually harassed mean there’s a problem with the victims?” she wrote in English, Korean and Japanese on social media on Monday (Aug 21).
“Why are you asking the victim for a cause? I think that perpetrators and secondary perpetrators are equally bad. It makes me sad that this is happening in 2023.”
She revealed a traumatising incident which came about when she was a little one.
“When I was six years old, both of my parents were working and I was home alone and raped by a robber,” she wrote.
“At that time, I lied to my parents and said that I almost got robbed but I didn’t open the door, because I was afraid my parents would get hurt.”
She added: “The shock caused me to suffer from selective mutism, and I’ve lived my life hiding it without telling anyone about it.”
Selective mutism is an nervousness dysfunction the place a particular person is unable to talk in sure social conditions.
DJ Soda stated she has by no means acquired any apologies when she was sexually harassed by fellow DJs and was normally instructed that “it was a joke”.
“I was sexually harassed and molested several times throughout my life, and I thought I had to hide it and live as if nothing had happened,” she wrote.
She was anxious initially that her put up on being sexually harassed at the Osaka Music Circus Festival would have an effect on her future work in Japan, however the organisers have assured her that they might assist her.
According to the Japanese media, two 20-year-old males have turned themselves in to the police over the alleged sexual harassment. The pageant’s organisers have additionally filed a felony criticism in opposition to two males and one lady over the incident.
DJ Soda denied that she was an consideration seeker.
“If a person like me speaks up little by little in this way, wouldn’t society’s perception change a little some day?” she added. – The Straits Times/Asia News Network
