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Journalist/Author of Flowers of Fire: The Inside Story of South Korea's Feminist Movement. Ex @AFP Seoul. Words on @nytimes , @foreignpolicy , @ajenglish , etc.

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Hawon Jung

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In 2007, N.Korean Seol Song-ah read "Gone With the Wind" for the first time, thinking - "this is my story." Inspired, she later wrote a novel that captured the hopes & struggles of many N.Korean women during the North's tumultuous past decades. My latest:

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'The woman who stole the sun'

Seol Song-ah still remembers the first time that she read 'Gone with The Wind'' in North Korea in 2007. The book, one of a few American titles officially translated in the North, was one of the most...

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It's official: South Korea will abandon its 66-year-long ban on abortion as the Constitutional Court ruled today the criminal laws banning abortion unconstitutional, saying the laws "excessively infringe upon women's rights to choose."

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What a photo. In S.Korea, a growing number of venues like cafes, casual bistros, or even public libraries ban children under the "no kids" banner, supposedly not to inconvenience other patrons. One MP criticized the "exclusionary" practice in a presser, with her toddler in tow.

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History in the making. More than 20,000 South Korean women angrily urged the gov't to crack down on the widespread 'molka' (spy cam) crimes that secretly film women at public toilet/public transport/office/school- in the biggest-ever protest held by women in the nation. #혜화시위

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While everyone in S.Korea is doom-scrolling on this pivotal election night, I think of the ordinary women/men I met in the court of reporting for my book & whose daily lives may be deeply affected by the outcome of the election, esp. in terms of gender equality (a long thread)

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Here's a message Kim Jong Un wrote on the guestbook at the Peace House summit venue, which reads "A new history begins now - at the starting point of history and the era of peace." #interkoreasummit

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S.Korea's SBS TV came under fire after airing a news segment abt Michelle Yeo's Oscar victory that had removed "ladies" from her speech, "Ladies, don’t let anybody tell you you are ever past your prime." The edit was made because her remark "doesn't apply to women only," it said.

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SBS, 양쯔충 오스카 수상소감서 '여성' 삭제했다가 뭇매

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"But all of us are, or were once children...The society we want is not one that is only made for people who are quick, skillful, and experienced - but one where it's okay to be slow, clumsy, or inexperienced," Yong said (apologies for the photo dump, but the child is so cute!😅)

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FYI, South Korea has recorded the lowest birthrates in the world for years, and the increasing prevalence of the public/private spaces enforcing the "no-kids" rule sparked a viral (and bitter) joke, "South Koreans love no-kids zones so much that the whole country has become one."

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One of the key reasons why South Korea has the lowest birthrates in the world, summed up in one survey: when asked by matchmaking agencies to describe the biggest obstacle to marriage, women cited men's views on domestic duty sharing. Men said feminism.

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결혼하고 싶으면 고쳐야 하는 것…男 ‘페미니즘’· 女 ‘가사분담’

소개팅에 나갔을 때, 또는 일상생활 중에 불합리한 결혼관을 갖고 있는 사람을 적지 않게 보게된다. 미혼남녀들은 이성의 결혼관 중 가장 시급하게 개선돼야 할 사항이 무엇이라고 생각할까? 남성은 ‘페미니즘’을, 여성은 ‘가사 분..

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"In order to boost our birthrate that is the world's lowest, we should first change our society that rejects children," @yong_hyein said. "Children are our fellow citizens who learn about the world for the first time, so they can be slow, clumsy, or inexperienced in everything."

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The women chanted, "Those men who film molka (spycam)! Those who upload it! Those who watch it! All should be arrested & face stern punishment! Molka (hidden in) cigarette packets! Molka in water bottles! Molka in car keys! Molka in eye glasses! Restrict molka sales! #혜화시위

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The so-called molka crimes are so rampant in South Korea that news about men- from school teachers to pastors - caught secretly filming women make headlines on a daily basis. Here's a story I did in 2016 about this sickening trend with no sign of stopping

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These women hunt hi-tech peeping Toms in South Korea where secret camera porn is rampant

Seoul has an all-female hidden camera-hunting squad - and they are at the forefront of a battle against ‘molka’ or secret camera porn

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Last year a top female kpop star knelt in front of her bf to beg him to stop threatening to post her spycam sex videos online. Meanwhile, a bunch of male kpop stars were filming/watching/sharing together spycam videos of women drugged & raped for male bonding. See the difference?

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Female K-pop stars and actors have rushed to issue denials that they appear in sex videos secretly shot by male singers, illustrating women's fears about victim-blaming and stigma in the face of South Korea's enduring conservative social values

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More banners from S.Korean women's historic protest against molka (spycam porn) crimes 1: "Wanna shit with my guard down" 2: "Which one of the following men should be punished? 1) men who film (molka videos) 2) men who upload them 3) men who watch them

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It means S.Korean MPs will have to revise the current criminal laws on abortion by December 2020, after which the laws will no longer be effective automatically. Here's a scene outside the Constitutional Court after today's landmark ruling was announced.

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재판관 4(헌법불합치) : 3(단순위헌) : 2(합헌)으로 낙태죄 헌법불합치가 선고되었습니다. 헌재 앞 현장입니다!!!!

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A historic moment. While Argentina celebrates today's landmark decision to legalize abortion, South Korea will also see its abortion ban fade into history in 2 days- in line with a 2019 court ruling that ruled the ban unconstitutional, leaving it to expire on Dec. 31, 2020.

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1) They include widely-stigmatized unwed moms who receive support from the gender equality ministry, which will become history once the rightwing candidate, Yoon, wins the election (unwed moms in S.Korea are shamed & discriminated against so relentlessly that over 90% of them...

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Here are some of the banners at today's protest in S.Korea against molka porn (spycam secretly filming women at public toilet/public transport/office/school). These brave women showed up in throngs despite threats of online bullying/harrassment & they absolutely rocked. #혜화시위

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Yoon has won the South Korean presidential election, a scenario one women's rights activist I talked to described as "a long, hard winter to come." For more background, here's a thread I did earlier:

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By animating & courting young men angry at feminists, S.Korea's rightwing party is betting anti-feminism as a winning strategy for the upcoming prez election- following the playbook of many other rightwing politics around the world. By me for @globeandmail

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And the celebration goes on in Seoul...(from @womenlink )

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...lose give up their jobs around childbirth, being pushed into poverty, or to give up their babies, often under the pressure from families; at least 120,000 such babies were subsequently sent away for overseas adoption, a decades-long practice that still persists today).

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2) They also include survivors of widespread tech-based sexual abuse like spycam porn, and officials who remove such sexually abusive materials from the internet on behalf of victims at a rare state-run help center created & funded by the gender equality ministry.

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What's worse, sharing the molka footage & so-called revenge porn videos with other men on the Internet has become sthg of a "fun pastime" amg these high-tech peeping Toms. Here's a story I did in 2017 about S.Korean women's battle against online sex crimes

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Feminist movements around the world have often been marked by 1 step forward followed by 2 steps back, a modicum of progress followed by years of backlash, and today's election result showed S.Korea isn't immune from this pattern of history. The next 5 yrs will be...interesting.

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Today's rally also showed a sad reality- most protestors hid their faces with facial masks/sunglasses/hats for fear of being identified by male acquaintances & becoming a subject of relentless sexual harassment/online trolling that had targeted many past women's rights protestors

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3) They also include sexual assault victims who had to fight off a barrage of criminal accusations over false complaint, libel, insult, coercion, etc., while their parents, friends, or colleagues faced similar charges after voicing support, a practice called "revenge accusation."

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Farewell but not goodbye. Tens of thousands of S.Korean women gathered in Seoul for the 6th & final round of anti-molka (spycam porn video) protest, ending the months-long journey that sparked nationwide soul-searching over widespread mysogyny & exploitation of women. #불편한용기

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(S.Korea has 1 of the harshest defamation laws & 1 of the toughest punishments for false accusations among advanced nations, but, at the same time, has 1 of the most narrowly-defined rape laws, making the country fertile grounds for such legal backlash.

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Fighting for justice in South Korea, where truth can be a crime

Text by Jung Hawon and pictures by Jung Yeon-je

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Such rampant discrimination is why S.Korea has remained the unchallenged worst performer in the OECD gender pay gap & Glass Ceiling index. Yet Yoon said there is "no structural gender discrimination" in S.Korea, a claim that drew cheers from young MRAs, one of his key supporters.

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4) They also include women who were fired at work after becoming pregnant, or whose job applications were rejected by the firms that turned out to have secretly slashed test/interview scores of 100s of female job seekers to hire less-qualified men instead.

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But feminism was never brought to the fore & used as political scapegoat like this in any past presidential elections (or any election at all). That's why this election is so different from the past, and caused so much fear & anxiety among so many women voters.

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Estimates based on state data showed less than 0.5% of sexual assault reports were false & most false complaints were made over physical fights, or frauds. Yet Yoon declared toughening punishment for "false sexual crime complaints" as the centerpiece of his election promises).

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Many of the women I met in the course of reporting for my book also expressed the similar sentiment of disbelief, shock & fear, and one of them went so far as to say, "maybe this is how many American women felt watching the 2016 election unfold?"

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5) They also include young, "no-marriage" women who refuse to get married in defiance of the pressure on women to become self-sacrificing caregivers for husbands and children, while trying to explore new forms of family/companionship not based on blood, or marriage.

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Since the thread is blowing up, here's a bit of shameless self-promotion: Flowers of Fire, which chronicles S.Korea's feminist movement, also explains about no-kids zones, why so many women in S.Korea shun marriage/childbirth, and many more. If interested:

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In the news segment, the word "ladies" was muted and Yeo's remark was simply translated as "don’t let anybody tell you you are ever past your prime." Following complaints from viewers, SBS later removed the clip of the segment on YouTube & posted a new one with full translation.

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The gender equality ministry has championed making such companionship a legal form of family, arguing allowing women to live a life beyond the traditional, patriarchal family structure will eventually encourage more to have a child & help boost S.Korea's rock-bottom birthrates.

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When a male South Korean lawmaker tells Seoul's antitrust chief nominee - a Harvard-educated economics professor - "you would have been a perfect nominee only if you had given birth," the look of disbelief on her face is all of us.

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Kim Bok-dong- a former teenage sex slave for Japanese soldiers during WWII & an iconic activist who broke silence over the wartime atrocities against women/girls- has died. Her testimonies played a key role in shedding light on the plight of so-called "comfort women" in S.Korea.

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Survivor of wartime sex slavery, iconic activist, dies at 93

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5) They also include a small but growing number of "brave fathers" who take paternity leave, an almost unthinkable idea in South Korea until the mid-2010s, value family life, and hope to live differently from their fathers' generation.

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A viral social media posting encapsulates this sentiment among many young women in South Korea, "I thought I'd never vote for Lee unless someone shots me in the head (the Korean equivalent of 'unless someone puts a gun to my head'), but Yoon has shot me in the head."

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The number of South Koreans taking paternity leave surged by more than five folds from 2015 to 2020 to account for nearly 25% of all parental leave, partly thanks to the gender equality ministry's aggressive push to increase state support for such fathers.

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Of course this election is not just about gender issues; it's also about economy, jobs, trade, diplomacy, national defense, North Korea, and, more than anything else, all-important housing policies, an area where the current government was widely condemned for having failed.

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A less-known story about Yoon Yuh-Jung: when she was struggling to get a role in South Korea in the 80s after leaving her cheating husband who wouldn't pay child support, it was another middle-aged, once-struggling divorcee who saved the much-stigmatized "divorcee actress."1/3

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Fyi: in dual-income families in South Korea, men spend less than a third of the 3 hours their wives spend on household chores & childcare each day. And even women who are the family breadwinners still spend more time on such domestic duties than their stay-at-home husbands.

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Hundreds of S.Korean women marching in Gangnam as part of worldwide Women's March against Pres. Trump, chanting "my body, my choice."

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전 세계 600여개 도시의 여성들이 거리로 뛰쳐나온 날, 서울 강남역 일대에선 2000여 명이 행진하고 있습니다. #세계여성_공동행진_서울

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To be fair, many women have no love for the Democrats, either, after 3 of the party heavyweights, including 2 presidential contenders, were jailed or took his own life after being accused of sexual assault, and many party cadres relentlessly attacked their victims for years.

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But Yoon vowed to replace the gender equality ministry with a new ministry focused on children, family & population - just like his election promises for female voters that largely focused on married women & moms.

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After years of reporting, writing, editing (and banging my head against the keyboard in frustration), I'm happy to announce that Flowers of Fire, my book about South Korea's feminist movement, is finally out! A big shoutout & thanks to everyone who made this possible.

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A S.Korean prosecutor appeared on live TV yesterday to tell a story of being groped/sexually abused by a senior DA in public as other DAs & Justice Minister were watching. Her career went down the drain after reporting the abuse. The alleged groper went on to become a star DA.

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[JTBC 뉴스룸] 피해를 당했음에도 받아야 했던 불이익…현직 검사가 문제 제기한 검찰 내 성추행. "다른 피해자 분들께, 결코 당신의 잘못이 아니라는 것을 얘기해주고 싶어서 나왔습니다." #인터뷰

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Never felt so awkward being a South Korean married to a German... #KORGER

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But while the hypocrisy & incompetency of the Dems were widely criticized, the perceived open misogyny in the rightwing party's campaign scared many women into voting for Dems, the only viable choice left to defeat Yoon. And Dems, after finally realizing that young men were...

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And the highlight of Saturday's anti-molka (spy cam porn) rally in South Korea: women took to the stage to shave their heads in protest at the government's failure to crack down on the widespread molka crimes #혜화시위

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The Democratic Party presidential contender, Lee, recently apologized for the party's response to the sexual misconduct scandals, which many critics called, albeit better than nothing, a bit too late & a last-minute attempt to shore up female votes.

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Many women in their 30s also turned against the Dems due to dramatic housing price hike, a huge issue in country whose population is mostly concentrated in the Seoul metro areas with never enough houses & the decisions over housing/family finances are often made by housewives.

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Squid Game 2 is treated like a blockbuster movie in terms of production scale/quality and this fits the pattern of S.Korea's film industry that notoriously excludes women in big projects. Among 36 big budget films released in 2022, 29 of them (80%) were led by male characters.

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Fans Ask Netflix Korea Why There Are No Female Actors in 'Squid Game 2' #SBS 뉴스

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(I even blurred eyes/lips of many protestors in those photos just in case. In high-tech yet male-dominated South Korea, one should never underestimate the threat of online bullying & the wrath of anti-feminists)

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...unlikely to migrate from Yoon & his antifeminist rhetoric anyway, started to aggressively woo young women & roll out a slew of policies for them, forming an awkward union of freighted young women & the party whose hope for re-election now hinged on their support.

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Surprise, surprise. #Seohyun , a popular member of top K-pop girlband #GirlsGeneration , joined North Korean singers on stage during their Seoul concert.

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To clarify, the comment about Yeo's speech not applying to only women came from an official of the SBS newsroom cited by local media outlets. SBS later said there had been no intention to deliberately distort Yeo's message and vowed to be more careful in the future.

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Moving messages for S.Korea's molka (spy cam)/revenge porn victims at Sat.'s anti-molka protest #혜화시위 1. "(Fight) So That Our Sisters Will No Longer Cry In Silence" 2. "Don't cry, we'll help the video deleted/Don't kill yourself, we'll protect you/We will fight for you."

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S.Korean gov't said today it would remove the words "gender equality" & "sexual minorities" from school textbooks, a change largely in line with demands from rightwing religious groups, saying the words could cause misunderstanding/confusion about sexual identity among children.

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새 교육과정에 민주주의·자유민주주의 함께 쓴다

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Jobs for the boys under fire in South Korea - France 24

Jobs for the boys under fire in South Korea

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I talked about South Korea's culture of Gapjil (abusing others using one's social hierarchy/power) & double standards over female stars in this @SCMPNews story on a top K-pop artist whose alleged misbehavior sparked a storm of public outrage.

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"We're on the brink of having a major disaster." "I think ppl will be crushed to death." Police records disclosed today showed desperate calls urging the authorities to act flooded in for hours before Itaewon crowd crush, which many experts call an avoidable, man-made disaster.

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1) This Inquisition against women in S.Korea's video game industry seems to have reached a new low- a firm recently urged an illustrator to publicly declare that she doesn't support feminism after gamers accused her of being a feminist (a de-facto death sentence in the industry)

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A South Korean video game artist followed several feminist groups on Twitter & retweeted a post featuring a slang term describing sexist men. Soon her employer launched a probe into whether she harbored "anti-social ideology" as gamers demanded her sacking

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Move over, Squid Game. This little girl's cosplay as the Taiwanese President Tsai Ying-wen -- from that auntie haircut to the suit jacket -- is the best Halloween costume I've seen this year.

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朋友拍到的貓英cosplay 😂

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I earlier tweeted about Hara Koo - a top K-pop star who almost fell victim to revenge porn following threats by her ex-lover. After months of relentless online bullying by those who attacked Koo for being a "slut," or for simply dating a wrong guy, she attempted suicide today.

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Last year a top female kpop star knelt in front of her bf to beg him to stop threatening to post her spycam sex videos online. Meanwhile, a bunch of male kpop stars were filming/watching/sharing together spycam videos of women drugged & raped for male bonding. See the difference?

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Some exciting news: "Flowers of Fire," my book about South Korea's #metoo movement, will be officially released on March 7, 2023- a day before the International Women's Day! After more than 4 years of reporting & writing, it's such a thrill to know this book will be finally out.

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By animating & courting young men angry at feminists, S.Korea's rightwing party is betting anti-feminism as a winning strategy for the upcoming prez election- following the playbook of many other rightwing politics around the world. By me for @globeandmail

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A rookie S.Korean MP drafted a new bill to define rape based on a lack of consent/abuse of unequal power relations, making a renewed push to revise the outdated law that defines rape on the basis of physical violence & requires victims to prove that they resisted hard enough.

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4 years

존경하는 국민 여러분, 60년이 넘도록 한 번도 바뀌지 않은 강간죄, 이제 바꿔야 합니다. 국민 여러분의 관심이 어느 때보다도 절실합니다. 이제 시작입니다. 법안이 소관 상임위원회를 거쳐 본회의를 통과할 수 있도록 최선을 다하겠습니다. 감사합니다. 2020년 8월 12일 정의당 국회의원 류호정

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4 years

...while many female stars face boycott threats/media criticism over their "attitudes" e.g. not smiling enough/not standing straight in public appearances, failing to speak in a feminine tone on social media, using a cell phone case emblazoned with Girls Can Do Anything, etc.

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Hawon Jung

4 years

South Korean police arrested a man who operated notorious Telegram chatrooms in which he shared videos of at least 58 women & 16 underage girls being sexually abused/raped with 10,000 paid members - in one of the most egregious cases of digital sex crime reported in the country.

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4 years

[Newsmaker] Police expand probe into Telegram sex slave videos

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4 years

It's interesting that the kind of celebrity "misbehaviors" in South Korea that cause public outrage/boycott calls over male stars are often actual criminal activities like illegal gambling, sexual assaults, filming spycam porn, using illegal drugs, or prostitution, while...(ctnd)

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Hawon Jung

6 years

So this is a message Kim Jong-Un's sister left on the guestbook of S.Korea's presidential palace during today's visit: "I hope that Pyongyang and Seoul will get closer in the hearts of our people and the future of reunification & prosperity will be brought forward."

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6 years

Wanna shake hands across the inter-Korea border like Moon & Kim? This movie set near Seoul- which recreated the border truce village of Panmonjum for the 2000 hit "Joint Security Area"- is drawing tourists hoping to re-enact the historic handshake themselves. From @joongangilbo

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Hawon Jung

4 years

The four great South Korean actresses who made #Parasite and its success possible. Their exquisite performance was truly the best part of this movie.

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Hawon Jung

3 years

I wrote for @nytimes about how young men in South Korea weaponized an universal hand gesture🤏 for the antifeminist backlash in its most bizarre form -- and what that means to the country's women.

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Opinion | The Little Symbol Triggering Men in South Korea’s Gender War (Published 2021)

Fury over pinched fingers and a sausage is putting women’s rights in danger.

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Hawon Jung

6 years

1) Meanwhile in S.Korea...a major online game maker landed in hot water after its CEO formally grilled a female worker for potentially "spreading anti-social sentiment"- by following women's rights groups on Twitter & liking some of their tweets (Korean)

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Hawon Jung

3 years

Yoon became a staple in Kim's TV dramas, to the point where she was oft called Kim's alter ego. Yoon's career flew high again (a rarity for an actress of her age if you know what I mean) & both Yoon/Kim remain 2 of the most well-respected figures in S.Korea's TV/film industries.

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4 years

In S.Korea, those infected with C19 & the ppl they came into contact should self-isolate for 2 wks, and these are some of the emergency supplies provided by the gov't: Packs of instant ramen/rice, spam, canned tuna, bottled water, toilet papers, hand sanitizer, facial masks, etc.

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6 years

A historic handshake #InterKoreanSummit

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Hawon Jung

6 years

So much tears & hugs at this marathon two-day speaking event in Seoul for women to share their experiences & thoughts over sex abuse. I saw women talk about abuses by bosses/church elders/a husband & insults by police when they came forward, in the span of just an hour. #metoo

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Hawon Jung

4 years

I don't even know where to begin. This state-funded animated film shown at South Korean schools to prevent teen suicides apparently shows a teenage girl dissuading her suicidal friend by saying, "If you drown, your body will be swollen & puffy, so it really won't look pretty."

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여성신문

4 years

“나, 죽고 싶어.” “물에 빠져 죽으면 시체가 퉁퉁 불어 진짜 안 예쁘대.” [단독] 황당한 10대 자살예방 교육 10대들 야유 "황당하다" "외모지상주의"

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3 years

Kim Soo-Hyun also struggled to survive as a divorcee (still a stigmatizing term in S.Korea if you can believe it) before becoming the most powerful TV writer from the 80s to early 2000s. And Kim kept giving Yoon roles for her hit dramas despite oppositions by TV executives. 2/3

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Hawon Jung

5 years

After a recent suicide of a cyber-bullied K-pop star, a major South Korean internet portal site decided to shut down news comment sections - widely criticized as a breeding ground for online bullying, misogyny, racism, xenophobia & other hate speech - for its entertainment news.

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Reuters

5 years

South Korean portal to disable entertainment comments after death of K-pop star

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Hawon Jung

5 years

Thoroughly enjoyed watching Ms. & Mrs. Cops - a comic-action film about female cops chasing after men who drug-rape women & post the videos of the rape scenes online for profit in a story ripped from the headlines in S.Korea - a hotbed of high-tech sex crimes targeting women.

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Hawon Jung

5 years

K-pop star Goo Hara died in an apparent suicide today, joining a long and ever-growing list of female S.Korean entertainers who take their own lives amid relentless & misogynistic cyber-bullying - including Goo's best friend & another K-pop star, Sulli, who died just last month.

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AFP News Agency

5 years

K-pop star Goo Hara found dead at her home

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Hawon Jung

4 years

Some personal (and professional) news: I'm writing a book about South Korea's #metoo movement, a powerful wave of feminist awakening that has ushered in profound changes in the South Korean society in recent years - and the stories of remarkable women who made all these possible.

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Hawon Jung

4 years

Wow. S.Korean MPs - following months-long campaigns by feminist activists - passed a landmark legislative package to tackle image-based sexual abuse, making the possession/purchase/download of non-consensual sexual footage a criminal offense punishable with up to 3 yrs in jail.

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연합뉴스

4 years

[1보] 'n번방 방지법' 본회의 통과…성착취물 단순소지도 최대 징역3년

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Hawon Jung

5 years

What a heartbreaking & symbolic image. A protestor who took to the street in downtown Seoul to show solidarity with the pro-democracy movement in HK was soon swarmed by Chinese who surrounded him/her & held out the images of Five-starred Red Flag at the protestor.

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김과인

5 years

홍대에서 일어난 일이라고 한다. 홍콩시위를 지지하는 집회는 홍대에서 계속 개최되고 있었는데 이젠 대륙인들이 집회를 방해하기도 하나보다. 많은 이들의 관심과 연대가 필요하다.

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5 years

Jesus. Global investigation into the dark web's most notorious pedophile site reaped 337 arrests worldwide from Germany to UAE. But a vast majority of those arrested - more than 220 including the site's operator - are South Koreans, Seoul police say.

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5 years

Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 -- an iconic feminist novel that portrays widespread sexism & gender discrimination in economically-advanced yet deeply patriarchal South Korea -- is set to hit bookstores in the UK after taking South Korea and Japan by storm.

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Simon & Schuster PR

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5 years

Today we are reading Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982, the South Korean sensation that has the whole world talking. The most important book to have emerged from South Korea since The Vegetarian, coming to the UK February 2020

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Hawon Jung

2 years

“The birth strike is women’s revenge on a society that puts impossible burdens on us.”: I wrote for @nytimes about how sexism & gender violence are driving many S.Korean women to shun marriage/childbirth & how the current govt's antifeminist policies could make things even worse.

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The New York Times

2 years

In Opinion South Korea has recorded the world's lowest fertility rate for the past three years. "Women in particular are fed up with this traditionalist society’s impossible expectations of mothers. So they’re quitting," Hawon Jung writes in a guest essay.

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5 years

한국 미투운동에 대한 시리즈 기사로 2019 아시아출판인협회 언론상의 명예호명 (honorable mention) 을 받았습니다. 한국의 미투운동을 알리기 위해 외신과의 최초 인터뷰에 기꺼이 응해주신 서지현 검사님, 김은희 전 테니스 선수, 보복성 역고소 피해자들의 연대자 '마녀' 님께 감사드립니다.

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Hawon Jung

5 years

Glad to receive an honorable mention at this year's @sopa award for my coverage of South Korea's #MeToo campaign. Can't be more grateful to all the brave women who made the movement possible & spoke to me in hopes of reaching out to women in other parts of the world.

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While punching the woman, the assailant shouted, "you deserve a beating because you're a feminist. You need lots of beating," acc. to a witness cited by local media. When the witness tried to stop him, he also beat up the man, saying, "why do help the femi instead of helping me?"

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BBC News (World)

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South Korean man attacks shop clerk he thought was a feminist

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Hawon Jung

6 years

South Korean President Moon Jae-In just met for the first time & shook hands with Kim Yo Jong, the sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, during the opening ceremony of #PyeongChang2018 Winter Olympics. (pic from Yonhap)

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A South Korean video game artist followed several feminist groups on Twitter & retweeted a post featuring a slang term describing sexist men. Soon her employer launched a probe into whether she harbored "anti-social ideology" as gamers demanded her sacking

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Hawon Jung

6 years

(As Kim crosses the border to South Korea at Panmunjom) #InterKoreaSummit Moon: "While you come to the South, when can I possibly go over there (North Korea)?" Kim: (holding Moon's hand) "Why don't we just cross over now?"

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6 years

Wow. Remember Seo Ji-hyeon, the S.Korean female prosecutor who started the country's #MeToo campaign? A Seoul court today sentenced her abuser to 2 years in jail in an unusually stern verdict which even Seo found "totally unexpected."

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Hawon Jung

6 years

As women speaking out against sex abuse make headlines around the world (esp in the US right now), here's my latest interview with the woman who started South Korea's #metoo movement @AFP

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