SEOUL, Oct. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — The National Human Rights Commission decided Friday to issue an official position recommending that it is better to restructure the gender ministry into an independent agency dealing exclusively with gender issues, rather than abolishing it. The commission decided at a board meeting to deliver the position to the National [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — The interior ministry announced a government reorganization plan Thursday under which the gender ministry will be abolished while the veterans affairs agency will be elevated to the ministry level and a separate body for consular services will be newly established. The plan, announced by Interior Minister Lee Sang-min, requires [...]
SEOUL, July 25 (Korea Bizwire) — The Ministry of Gender Equality and Family said Monday that it is planning to set up a shelter for male victims of sexual and domestic violence in its first move to keep up with a rising number of men subject to such crimes. In its work plan reported to [...]
SEOUL, July 25 (Korea Bizwire) — President Yoon Suk-yeol instructed officials Monday to quickly come up with a road map for abolishing the gender ministry in line with his campaign pledge, his spokesperson said. Yoon made the remark during a policy briefing by Gender Equality and Family Minister Kim Hyun-sook at his office, saying she [...]
SEOUL, March 10 (Korea Bizwire) — The fate of the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family has become uncertain as Yoon Suk-yeol was elected Thursday as president of South Korea with a campaign pledge to close the ministry. President-elect Yoon of the conservative People Power Party (PPP) pledged to dissolve the 21-year-old ministry in a [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — A little over half of South Koreans support the abolishment of the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family as proposed by the main opposition party’s presidential candidate Yoon Suk-yeol, a poll showed Wednesday. According to the Realmeter survey that asked 1,011 adults on Monday and Tuesday, 51.9 percent said [...]
SEOUL, July 15 (Korea Bizwire) — Nearly half of South Korean adults are in favor of some opposition lawmakers’ proposals to abolish the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family, a poll showed Thursday. In the poll of 1,016 people nationwide over the age of 18, 48 percent said they agree with the proposed dissolution of [...]
SEOUL, April 27 (Korea Bizwire) — The government will push to revise the law to allow parents to give either of their surnames to their children at the time of birth, as part of a broader plan to embrace diverse forms of families, the gender ministry said Tuesday. Currently, children in South Korea take their [...]
SEOUL, March 5 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s gender ministry said Thursday that it will make constant efforts to increase public awareness of gender equality and strengthen the social safety net for minorities this year. In a 2020 policy plan submitted to the presidential office, the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family said its yearly [...]