Dispatch Releases Interview with 18 Classmates and 2 Teachers of Nam Joo Hyuk Disputing Claims of Bullying and Describing Him as a Sunny Disposition Student

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• I am on the fence on NJH scandal but why should i trust dispatch for his case, when ockolas did not trust other cases where dispatch not only have testimonials, black n white evidence as well. Because of ockoala, i choose not to believe in this dispatch report. Whether NJH is or is not a bully, i will not judge him but i judge ockoala for being bias.

  • Stop reading her blog then.

    • Who are you to tell me not to read her blog. Non of youf business, it is my right.

  • Huh? She wasn’t even taking sides, literally reporting info she got from Korean sources. If she was taking sides, she’d be announcing her bias opinion but nothing in what she wrote describes she’s on anyone’s side. You hate what she writes and here you are commenting, makes total sense...easier to walk away.

    • My cooments still stands.

    • LOL. @Seed is that same pathetic Kim Seon-Ho stan formerly known as @Ethics who's still obviously mad that Koala saw through the bullsh!t whitewashing of her scoundrel oppa by Dispatch. Like the delulu fans of that other trash, they hate Koala but they still can't stay away from her blog. What a bunch of aimless, jobless fools. 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

    • @Seed

      Your “cooments” make no sense. There’s quite literally no opinion posted by the blogger. It’s a literal what happened article 🤦🏻‍♀️

    • As a journalist, I appreciate you pointing out that the writer wasn’t taking sides, just reporting! When readers don’t agree with an article, they frequently accuse the writer of bias.

    • You guys don’t get it, OP is still bitter Koala didn’t do a post of Dispatch’s report on Kim Seon Ho.

    • @Seed...I'll be the better person and walk away from people who are not logical here. LOL. Wow.

    • @neen...thanks

  • @butterfly, my comment still stands.

    • Omg hahaha! You can parrot as much as you want that your comment stands but it still makes no sense whatsoever. What a troll!

    • @NorCalgirl-my comments still stands, my right to my opinion.

    • @visenten, my right to my opinion n i will say it again n non of your business. Even if dispatch is right about NJH case, i comment still maintain.

  • you kinda sound stupid for someone who accused ockoala of making you not believing in Dispatch.

    When someone asked you to stop reading her blog, you retaliated with the MYOB-esque statement

    • What you said applies to you. My right to read or not rewd is mine non of your business.

  • @seedis...Loud haha, wrong-not my oppa, jobless-are you sure, so rude to label people, learn some manners from your parents. Loud Loud Whitewash my foot, so many evidence other than dispatch tells the truth n logic. My comments then is logical n i will still stand by it, even if dispatch is correct for njh case. Will see, if njh will clear his name by court or not, as they already sue the media n 1st accuser.

  • @sam wrong, bitter for what, hahaha...

• This is a matter that will be resolved by investigation and courts of justice. But in my opinion, I'm inclined to believe that he's innocent. For what I have seen of him, he seems to be the introvert and shy type, I picture him more being a formal good boy than an bully in high school. He has this quiet and sweet aura that makes it difficult to imagine him being a bully.
  It is true that testimonies from classmates could be influenced. However, if the accusers are hiding and not willing to cooperate with the police, that suggests that the accusations could be false.

• I'm not saying NJH is guilty or innocent but I personally don't think it means anything to have other classmates and 2 teachers speak on his behalf, regardless of whether he is innocent or guilty. No one really sees all sides to a person after all.

  • Agree!

  • But 20 people coming forward do hold more weight compared to 2 anonymous posters who refused to talk with dispatch to give their side of the story...
    Especially since the teachers and some of the students volunteered to disclose their real names to the public. I don't think any celeb has gotten this much support from their past friends before.
    This whole thing seems like a planned witch hunt against njh tbh. First the sudden bullying accusations years into his career, then spreading alleged "underage drinking" pictures of his to fan the flames. Someone's out to get him. Hope him and his company are pursuing this through a proper police investigation behind the scenes.

    • You got a point...but NJH issue aside, some bullies can be good to many people but can be bad to few.

      I experienced it before, my classmate was a good student and been friendly to almost, but when we became seatmates...she always secretly hit me and whisper insults. I'm an introvert so I have no guts to complain and I felt that no one will believe me bc she always act good.

    • Bam
      I experienced same thing with a former classmate who bullied me. She was an angel to others and even in front of my mom. When I told my mom, she refused to believe me. Sometimes these bullies only pick on one person.

      I also experienced ex-friends who picked on me and spread false rumors about me. I don’t know why they do that but I think it’s largely due to jealousy. So I am particularly careful about who makes the allegations.

      In the case of Nam Joo Hyuk, the complainers need to speak up otherwise they could be just envious of him.

  • @Brenda I so agree with your comment!
    @Bam & @Rei Sorry to hear about your experiences.

    • Thank you Peppa for your kind words. 🤗 🤗 🤗

• Innocent or guilty ? Maybe we'll never know as Dispatch isn't the New York Times ! And the police aren't able to contact the accusers because she has a lot in the plate already .

  • I mean it's not like the Times is reliable either. They are living off the luster of a previous media era.

    • Just pointing that Dispatch is not a "serious" media . I would have said Le Monde, El pais, ... Newspaper aren't anymore what they used to be . great part of them are in the hands of big fortunes .

• I mean, it could totally be that NJH’s agency paid off the accuser. Or… that they blatantly lied and realized they can’t really get away with it. I’m inclined to believe the latter but we’ll never know for sure. Tho compared to other bullying cases, this seems to not have any steam and hardly anyone backing up the claims. I’ll stick with NJH being framed theory until the next “evidence” pops up.

  • Female accuser came out yesterday. Sexual harassment. Text messages confirmed real by Soop. They're not suing her.

• "the teachers would have known" Yeah, that's a bunch of bull but while I totally get that bullying in Korea is at a whole other level, the reality is no one is ever gonna know and I don't personally care. I don't buy into celebrities being some moral upstanding group of people in the first place. There seems to be much more of a buy in on personal character of celebrities in Korea that I just don't get. This dude could just have jealous people coming for him or the company is paying people off in the background. Using media play in Dispatch is just way to lay the game.

• You don't really know how one person can be two faced. Maybe he was a disciplined student to teachers and was a bully to others. I have heard that bullying cam be pretty crucial in S. Korea. So, if the accusers are indeed saying truth I do hope he get the consequences. Most of the time it is east to say to forgive the bully but only a bullied person can really decide that. Also, bullying can really affect you for a long time if it was indeed crucial. People commit suicide due to bullying.

• It is 2 anonymous accusers who have since disappeared vs 18 people? I know who you believe, I believe in facts and the accuser must prove his case failing which there's no case. NAM shouldn't fret about such baseless accusations.

• Koreaboo has the interviews fully translated here:

  https://wwww.koreaboo.com/news/dispatch-interviews-20-high-school-classmates-teachers-claiming-nam-joo-hyuk-model-student

  They're extremely detailed and the two teachers even publicized their names. Some of the classmates said there are some truth to some of the bullying claims, but it was done by another student in their school called "P" and it had nothing to do with NJH.

• When we were 11 years old, my friend once made a classmate cry because she pointed out during lunchbreak that his clay project was store-bought. It was the truth, a lot of us saw that thing in the store. We were supposed to use our own hands for that clay project and most of us submitted ugly creations. I didn't think she bullied him, she told the truth out of a sense of fairness and not malice. Now I wonder, if we lived in Korea and my friend somehow became a star, would that boy say that that one incident made my friend a bully because she made him cry....