SEOUL, Feb. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — An appeals court on Friday found a former governor of South Chungcheong Province guilty of sexually abusing his then secretary, reversing the highly debated acquittal by a lower court in one of South Korea’s high profile Me Too cases. The Seoul High Court sentenced An Hee-jung to 3 1/2 [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — Seo Ji-hyeon, a public prosecutor who ignited a nationwide “Me Too” movement last year with her disclosure of sexual misconduct by a former senior prosecutor, said Thursday the conviction of her abuser showed that justice prevails without fail. Seo said in a news conference in Seoul that the court’s [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — The state human rights watchdog said Tuesday that it will launch a full-dress probe into human rights conditions in sports circles, which are under harsh criticism in the wake of sexual assault allegations raised by athletes earlier this month. “The National Human Rights Commission will create a special investigation [...]
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, April 18 (Korea Bizwire) – A Seoul court on Wednesday denied an arrest warrant for a former senior prosecutor accused of unfairly disadvantaging his junior colleague for raising sexual misconduct allegations against him. The Seoul Central District Court dismissed the prosecution’s request to arrest Ahn Tae-geun, a former prosecuting attorney, who is accused of abusing his power to punish a junior prosecutor [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — Gender equality minister Chung Hyun-back on Thursday expressed concerns over the growing “Pence rule” phenomenon in South Korean workplaces, promising to fight the alarming trend through education campaigns. The Pence rule refers to the practice of men shunning professional and personal engagements with women in the workplace out of [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea on Thursday announced measures to toughen punishment on sexual violence in the workplace, responding to growing calls to root out the pervasive culture of predatory sexual behavior at work. The government announced a plan to raise the maximum punishment and extend the statute of limitations for sexual [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — A provincial governor offered to resign early Tuesday amid allegations that he sexually abused a female secretary as the “Me Too” movement began to spread to political circles. An Hee-jung, a prominent liberal politician, apologized and offered to step down as governor of the central South Chungcheong Province, hours [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — A series of women have come forward with “me too” accounts of groping and other sexual misconduct they have suffered at the hands of men in positions of power since a female prosecutor bravely shared her own story last week. The prosecutor, Seo Ji-hyun, raised the accusations against a [...]