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The “comfort women”, a euphemism for Korean women forced into sexual slavery by the Japanese colonial government during the Second World War, are well known.
Now newly released South Korean (...)
In recent times, there is growing discussion around the crisis of social reproduction and care. South Korea has the lowest fertility rate in the world, while Japan is similarly wrestling with the same issue and a fast aging population. Even China has seen its population fall for the first time (...)
Feminists in South Korea are planning to conduct nationwide protests against gender-based violence this weekend, the first to occur simultaneously in several major cities since the pandemic.
It’s a response to an anti-feminist wave that has swept across South Korea, creating a tense gender (...)
In 1995, Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing declared gender mainstreaming as major global strategy. The strategy aimed at making feminism to the mainstream in the context of the global neoliberal era. The strategy promoted abolition of discrimination against women in the institutional (...)
On June 3, the Sudanese military and militia forces attacked the peaceful sit-in outside the Army Command in Khartoum, where thousands of protesters had gathered since 6 April to demand a peaceful transition to civilian rule after mass protests brought down the 30-year despotic rule of Omar (...)
Distributing pornography is illegal in the country, where secretly recorded sexual videos are common
The co-founder of South Korea’s biggest pornography website has been jailed for four years over the distribution of obscene material, as the country attempts to tackle a voyeurism epidemic. (...)
Women have continued to access abortion illegally in defiance of 65-year-old law
Kim Soo-jin will never forget the disgusting taste of the pulpy green-brown traditional Korean brew she drank in the hopes of ending her pregnancy, or the night she spent in pain, curled into a ball and unable (...)
Women destroy makeup as part of backlash against culture of laborious skincare regimes and pressure to look perfect
When Cha Ji-won decided to throw out all her makeup and cut her hair, her mother was the first to tease her: “Oh look, I have a son now.”
For more than a decade, starting (...)
In response to high-profile accusations of sexual assault and the gathering storm around the prevelance of spy cam footage in the Korean porn industry, the past year has seen a snowballing women’s movement in the traditionally conservative Korean society. In this article, So Yun Alysha Park (...)
Move follows protests by record numbers of women calling for more action to tackle rise of voyeurism
South Korea’s capital and largest city, Seoul, is set to begin daily checks for hidden cameras in public toilets in response to growing public outrage over an epidemic of “spy-cam porn”. (...)
Acquittal of Ahn Hee-jung, touted as a future president, is ‘incomprehensible’, says prosecution.
A former South Korean presidential contender accused of raping his female aide has been found not guilty, prompting anger from campaigners.
Ahn Hee-jung’s case is by far the highest-profile (...)
Punishment seen as harsh in a country where most male perpetrators are only fined
A protest in Seoul this month against hidden-camera pornography. Photograph: Jean Chung/Getty Images
A South Korean court has taken the rare step of jailing a woman for secretly photographing a male nude (...)
Demand grows for tougher penalties for ‘molka’ – the secret filming of images of a sexual nature
Women march for justice in South Korea where they say deep-seated sexism exists in the workplace. Photograph: Courage to Be Uncomfortable
Han Jin-young was working for a trading company in (...)
You might have heard the stories — of cameras that look like lighters, flashes of light inside nooks and crannies at a public restroom, subway upskirting — but they might have sounded like stories of other people. On June 9, some 22,000 women gathered in South Korea to say they’re not. It (...)
On Oct. 2017, in the U.S., the hashtag #MeToo went viral as women shared online incidents of sexual harassment and assault in the workplace. The hashtag soon made news headlines with accusations of sexual misconduct by film producer Harvey Weinstein. On Jan. 28, 2018, Prosecutor Seo Ji-hyun’s (...)
Japan and South Korea have reopened an old spat over wartime sexual slavery, or so-called Comfort Women. The latest flare-up began when a bronze statue of a girl representing former comfort women was installed in front of the Japanese consulate in the South Korean city of Busan. It’s triggered (...)
Parkhayeohaeng was created by feminists and social movement female activists to call for President Park Geun Hye’s resignation while also fighting the misogyny and gender discrimination that has emerged in the protests against President Park. At the heart of the organization are a dozen (...)
Gangnam is a place that captures the various facets of Korea’s social class issue and where a woman was murdered demonstrating that a person could be murdered simply for “being a woman.”
After Psy’s “Gangnam Style,” Gangnam may no longer be such a foreign place to those abroad. To Koreans, (...)
Activists say search for website editor who posted photos of men without their consent is hypocritical and ignores similar activities by men
South Korean women protest against pornography filmed on secret cameras. Photograph: Chung Sung-Jun/Getty Images
Police in South Korea are seeking (...)
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