Master Sergeant Lee Ye-ram reported to her superior that she had been sexually molested by a senior officer after returning from a dinner that she was pressured to attend. 

However, her superiors in the South Korean air force took no action and discouraged her from filing a complaint.

Lee requested a transfer to another unit following the incident and was diagnosed with anxiety disorder and insomnia. But the “stigma and harassment associated with being a victim of sexual violence” weighed heavily on her, according to the advocacy group Military Human Rights Center, and the master sergeant took her own