Families attack online after a South Korean plane crash

art Airline crashes in South Korea Last December at left park Guen-Woo an orphan. The 22-year-old unavailed space to mourning his parents in his flow of a river of abuse online, conspiring and malicious jokes.

The Air Air in Jeju returning from Bangkok, Thailand, dropped to the Muan International Airport on December 29 and exploded a concrete barrier at the end of the passageway, killed 179 people aged.

Police investigations are identified and arrested eight people accused of making funny and promoting online posts. These suggestions include families that “enjoy” to receive payment from the authorities, or that they are “fake victims” – until some feel forced to have lost their loved ones.

Authorities earn at least 427 posts.

But this is not the first time the South Korean families have lost their own online abuse targets. Talking to the BBC, experts describe a culture in which economic struggles, financial problems and social issues such as toxic competition with hate.

Following Seoul’s Hallowloween People’s Crush at 2022Victims and killed families are both sorting. A man who lost his son in the incident had his picture doctor in hate groups – showing him laughing after receiving payment.

People whose loved ones died in the Sewol Ferry drowning in 2014 – a sea disaster who saw 304 people killed, mostly children of school – also the targets of hate talks.

The tragedy saw the government paid an average of 420 million win ($ 292,840; £ 231,686) every victim claims that this number is unreasonable.

“People who live daily feel the fee and say that the lost ‘uneven professors of Seniology in Senkyunkwan University, tell the news site in Korea Herald.

In the late BBC comments, Prof Coo suggested that economic stress and a competitive job market – especially with the lonely people, left the issue of social solitude.

Many South Korea, he said, now “regard others not as their peers, but as enemies”, teaching a widespread culture in South Korea.

“We are likely to compare more … if you place others, the more convenient to feel more of yourself,” he said to BBC. “So there is a small passion in Korea to join hate or make spoken derogatory, trying to reduce others to raise oneself.”

Mr. Park said the families of the air crash victims described as “parasites scandaling the country’s money”.

By example, he mentions a recent article about an emergency fund of the three million won ($ 2,055; £ 1,632) enlarged for those killed by donations. That article was met with a flood of malicious comments, many mark the wrong suggestion used in taxpayers.

“As the families of the victims at Muan airport were hit by jackpot. They should be secretly happy,” said one of such comment.

Mr. Park said these comments “over”.

“Even if the accident fee arrives, how can we feel that no one spends it when it’s the price of loved ones?” He said. “Each of the comments cut us closely. We’re not here to make money.”

“Many people, instead of sensitive, build their entertainment in the suffering of others,” he added. “If there is like this, they shorten it and hold the hatred.”

Joshua Uyheng, a professor of psychology of the Philippines studying online hatred, says hate always believes in our expense “.

“We feel hate when we (we think) taking the short end of the stick.”

In case of air crash in Jeju, dynamic politics only make things worse.

The accident came between a period of South Korea’s political turmoil, with the country that changed from the suspended Yool’s decision divided by the country.

Many supporters of the right wings of people who have power in Yoon, with no evidence, targeting the main opsitionic party party given to a political DP.

“The Tragedy of Muan Airport is a disaster made by the person caused by DP,” Read a comment on YouTube. Another one describes this “100% wrong” at the party.

Park Han-Shin, whose brother died in a plane crash, saying that he was accused of being a member of the DP and “fake family member”. Too much is the claims that his daughter brought to social media to call them.

“It pains me deeply to see my father, who lost his brother in such a tragedy, being labelled a ‘scammer’. It also makes me worried that this misinformation might lead my father,” she wrote on Threads two days after the incident.

Park Han-Shin says he is shocked how people are “enjoying enjoying the pain of others”.

“That’s not something that man should do,” he told the BBC.

“I’m just an ordinary citizen. I’m not here to get into politics. I came to know the truth about my younger brother.”

While no perfect disgust solutions, experts say that social media companies need to establish policies of what is posting the saying and moderate content posted according to their platforms.

“Online users need to report harmful posts and comments smooth, and platform companies must actively delete such content,” Prof prof. Law enforcement agencies should also make guilty tasks, he added.

Reminding people of their shared identities can also help, Prof Uyheng said.

“The less people feel that they are on opposite ends of a zero-sum game, perhaps the more they can feel that tragedies like these are the shared concerns of us all – and that victims deserve empathy and compassion, not vitriol and condemnation.”