Actor Kwak Jin-young (52) complained of suffering, saying that he even tried to make an extreme choice because of the pain caused by the stalking damage.
Jinyoung Kwak revealed that he suffered from stalking for 4 years on SBS’ current affairs program ‘I want to know’, which aired on the 1st.
Jinyoung Kwak said, “At first, I said that I was a ‘Apocalypse’ fan. Through my sister (I got to know), we were brothers and sisters,” said Kwak Jin-young.
I made too many calls. I blocked him because he didn’t like me and changed his phone number. “I was regarding to change my 29-year-old phone number while I was on TV,” he said.
Jinyoung Kwak claimed that he had been stalked for four years. When Jinyoung Kwak blocked calls and text messages, the stalker even transferred 1 won to his account and sent 1,400 threatening and slanderous messages such as ‘I’m accusing you’, ‘I’m also accusing the city hall’, ‘You won’t be able to broadcast’, and ‘The plastic surgery monster’. He said he sent more than one dog.
Jinyoung Kwak said, “It’s so terrible. I get calls from numbers I don’t know. If I don’t answer, I get dozens of texts. Then I am surprised and block them. If I get a call from an unknown number, I start a game.” I really don’t know if it’s painful,” she cried.
Also, when I blocked calls and texts, he came to my house and came to the front of the store and caused a commotion. But I reported my mother as assault because I pushed her with my mother,” he said.
Jinyoung Kwak said that he might not overcome the stress of four years of stalking and even tried to make an extreme choice. Jinyoung Kwak said that he was receiving psychiatric treatment for depression until recently. You won’t know the pain.”
According to ‘I want to know’, the stalker has been detained and indicted on charges of trespassing, defamation, obstruction of business, violation of the Act on Promotion of Information and Communications Network Utilization and Information Protection, etc.
Kwak Jin-young said, “It’s creepy and scary to even send a letter inside the detention center. I’m afraid of retaliation. I’m still scared. How am I going to think of ruining myself once more while I’m in there? I’m actually afraid of harming me once more.”
Jinyoung Kwak, who debuted as a talent in the 20th MBC recruitment in 1991, appeared in ‘Eyes of Dawn’ (1991), ‘Son and Daughter’ (1992), ‘Love in Your Embrace’ (1994), and ‘Seoul Nocturne’ (1995). did.
In 2020, he appeared in SBS’s entertainment show ‘Burning Youth’, but his activities were suspended due to stalking damage.
He has been operating ‘Apocalypse Food’ since 2010 in his hometown of Yeosu, Jeollanam-do. On the 9th of last month, it became known that the special judicial police of Yeosu City had forwarded the food to the Suncheon Branch of the Gwangju District Prosecutors’ Office on charges of violating the Food Sanitation Act. Although it received HACCP certification in 2012, it is suspected that Kimchi was illegally distributed for several months following the certification was revoked because it did not meet the legal standards.
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