SEOUL, Jan. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s top court on Thursday ordered a lower court to reconsider its jail sentence for a former senior prosecutor who allegedly reassigned a junior colleague he sexually harassed to a remote area in an attempt to cover up the case, which later sparked the MeToo movement here. Seo [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s top court on Monday reaffirmed a high-profile sexual assault ruling that brought down a political star and helped spark the powerful #MeToo movement, a decision seen as a litmus test of the court’s gender sensitivity. The Supreme Court upheld a lower court decision that found former South [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea will set up new departments dedicated to handling gender equality policies in eight government offices to better deal with sexual discrimination and abuse in the cultural and educational sectors, the gender ministry said Tuesday. Under a plan endorsed by the Cabinet , the new posts will be [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — Yesterday’s acquittal of former South Chungcheong Province Gov. Ahn Hee-jung, who was charged with raping a former aide, has sparked controversy, with many activists calling for a new law that would make non-consensual sexual acts a crime in regards to the “no means no” rule, a campaign slogan that [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — A lower court on Tuesday found former South Chungcheong Province Gov. An Hee-jung not guilty of sexually abusing his former secretary. The 54-year-old politician was indicted in April on charges of forcing his former secretary, Kim Ji-eun, to have sex with him four times and molesting her multiple times [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — With the rise of the #MeToo movement earlier in the year came heightened awareness of sexual abuse, and the government’s decision to reveal information regarding such violence has attracted significant attention by the public. According to the Ministry of the Interior and Safety (MOIS), a government website that featured [...]
SEOUL, March 23 (Korea Bizwire) – Prosecutors on Friday sought a court warrant to arrest former South Chungcheong Gov. An Hee-jung for sex offenses. The Seoul Western District Prosecutors’ Office said it requested the warrant on charges of sexual intercourse and sexual harassment by abuse of occupational authority, citing the risk of him destroying evidence as he has denied the charges. If convicted, he could face up to five [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — For 25-year-old Koo Hyun-sik (an alias), his two-year stint in the South Korean Army as a conscript was a traumatic experience that left him scarred, as he was sexually abused multiple times by a warrant officer in his unit. The ongoing “MeToo” campaign has left him feeling strangely marginalized, [...]
SEOUL, March 16 (Korea Bizwire) — Ever since female prosecutor Seo Ji-hyeon appeared on TV and accused a former senior official in the prosecution service of having touched her inappropriately, the floodgates have opened, unleashing a seemingly endless stream of sexual harassment allegations. With the vast majority of the alleged victims of sexual harassment being [...]
SEOUL, March 14 (Korea Bizwire) — As South Korea’s MeToo movement continues to be bolstered by new allegations brought forward seemingly every other day, there has been an emergence of voices questioning exactly what MeToo incidents really are. Since most of the MeToo stories of sexual abuse detail wrongdoing within relationships where the alleged perpetrator [...]