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| YouTube star Yang Ye-won. Yonhap |
By Lee Min-young
YouTuber Yang Ye-won has declared war on malicious netizens.
Yang's legal representative said Thursday that Yang has decided to bring a libel suit against 100 netizens who have made hateful comments on her blog and social media.
Yang said the suit was not for compensation but a sincere apology.
Yang also is involved in an ongoing sexual harassment case.
The legal dispute between her and her online attackers started with a video she posted on YouTube last May, in which she made a tearful confession that she had been sexually harassed by several men during a private photo shoot.
Yang said she was forced into posing for semi-nude photos surrounded by strangers in a locked room. She said some of the men even touched her intimately.
The studio manager, who was also said to have been involved, killed himself in July while the police investigation was under way.
Last month, a man whom she said spread her photos on a porn site and was one of those who molested her during the photo session was sentenced two years and six months in jail.
