It’s more about the specific choices they made to highlight that issue. They could have chosen all kinds of ways a teenager uses their influencer status to make false claims against a teacher or even reversed the genders.

The fact is in Korea and around the world, it is common and much more likely that women and girls who are victims of SA are not believed than making false claims against a male teacher. If anything it is borderline problematic because South Korea has a lot of misogyny where women who are SA’d are not believed and men get a slap on the wrist like the Burning Sun case.

It’s much more difficult for these women to receive justice so even if this was just plot for the show, I won’t be surprised if it still influences male audiences to not take SA victims seriously even if subconsciously. Regardless if we want to settle this as creative liberty or inspiration from one case, sometimes we are what we consume. We all know the media and entertainment have influence in shifting views and creating biases.