New York, June 30 (Korea Bizwire) — The Open Society Foundations will invest more than $100 million over the next five years in strengthening a range of feminist-led movements and increasing their leadership across a broad range of sectors, from politics and the private sector to civil society and government. The majority of the funding [...]
SEOUL, April 28 (Korea Bizwire) — A string of job posts that ban or welcome the application of feminists are stirring up a controversy in South Korea. Recently, an owner of a convenience store in Nowon District in Seoul stipulated in a job post for a part-timer that the applicant shouldn’t be a feminist. Soon [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — A best-selling Korean feminist novel topped an online sales list in China, becoming a major overseas hit after also achieving success in Japan, a publication house said Thursday. “Kim Ji-young, Born in 1982″ by Cho Nam-joo ranked atop the fiction sales list on Dangdang, China’s biggest online bookstore, on [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — The movie “Kim Ji-young, Born 1982,” based on the best-selling novel of the same title, has re-ignited the debate on feminism ahead of its release next month, with some men announcing a boycott of the story that has emerged as a symbol of women’s struggles in patriarchal South Korea. [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — The Japanese-language version of “Kim Ji-young, Born in 1982,” a bestselling South Korean feminist novel, has been printed more than 130,000 times since its release more than three months ago, the book’s South Korean publisher said Tuesday. The translated version of the book by Cho Nan-joo hit the Japanese [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — Naver Corp. announced the most searched word in 2018 on Wednesday . The word ‘feminist’ topped the list, which seems to reflect the heated debate on gender issues in South Korean society. The word gender in question refers to the social construct of the word gender relative to biological [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — Over 40 percent of South Korean women in their 20s are surveyed to have deemed themselves as feminists, reflecting a social trend in which feminism is increasingly taking root among youngsters in a male-dominated Korean society, a women’s think tank said Tuesday. The Korean Women’s Development Institute conducted a [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — A feminist movement to “remove the corset” by going against practices that activists say were forced upon women is becoming a larger social issue in the nation. Removing the corset, for these women, means not having to apply makeup, not having to wear a bra, and not having to [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — On Saturday, feminist activists took to the streets of Gangnam, marching, removing their tops and yelling “My body is not porn” before being stopped by police. The members of “Fire Femi Action” carried out a shirtless protest at Facebook Korea’s headquarters in Yeoksam-dong in Seoul’s Gangnam district, denouncing Facebook’s [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — On July 26, an ecofeminist group held a press conference in Seoul’s Myeongdong shopping district to announce the results of a market research study of clothing sizes offered by 31 different apparel companies. Conducted this month, the list of companies included in the study are popular brands such as [...]