This paper concludes that feminist practices can be a dynamic process, constituted by social contexts and feminist activists in their local situation.JungVisitingKyungjaVisitingEBSCO_AspHecateJung K (2003) Practicing feminism in South Korea: the issue of sexual voice and the women's movement. Hecate...
News of the growing feminist movement in South Korea has reachedWestern media, but the roots of this radical uprising are undercovered. Mainstream media reporting in the West often covers the aspects of South Korean feminism that mirror our own achievements back to us, leaving the part...
Based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in 1998 during the currency crisis known as the "IMF era" in South Korea, this dissertation studies the progressive women's movement, especially activism on violence against women, in the context of a newly-democratizing civil society. It examines feminist...
The lesbians' rights movement in South Korea has undertaken various projects for solidarity with feminist movement groups for over 10 years. In spite of these efforts, lesbian issues have been blatantly excluded from all the agendas of women's rights. The same thing has happened in Women's Stud...
and ultimately a movement. The blowback and fear that 4B practitioners experience underscores their conviction that Korea is still a frightening place for women. Yeowon’s photo was posted on an Ilbe site after participating in a feminist protest, and she was harassed and sexually threatened ...
What impact has the 4B movement had in South Korea? The 4B movement has been controversial in South Korea. The country's presidentYoon Suk-yeol said in 2021that feminist movements were "blocking healthy relationships" between men and women in the nation. ...
With a presidential election drawing ever so near in 2022, President Moon failed to keep his promise of being a feminist president. Since the end of World War II until now, South Korea has rapidly transformed from an underdeveloped, war-ridden country to one of the most developed countries ...
Korea has suffered from the attempts of these neighboring countries to dominate it, particularly in the twentieth century. Each of them considers Korea to be of major importance to its own security, and since 1945 the United States has had a major security interest in the nation. The peninsula...
4B is a feminist movement that is believed to have originated in South Korea which calls for women to not date, marry, have sex with, or have children with men. Elon MuskOctober 25, 2024 7:51 pm Musk's election falsehoods travel hundreds of times further on X than fact-checks from of...
As feminist issues come to the fore in deeply patriarchal South Korea, there’s a growing discontent among young men thatthey’re being left behind. Moon, who leads Dang Dang We, a group “fighting for justice for men,” is one of them. ...