SEOUL, Aug. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — An ordinance has been proposed to support all female teenagers in Seoul with sanitary pads. The Seoul Metropolitan Government (SMG)’s campaign headquarters for the universal supply of sanitary pads for young women, which includes Kwon Soo-jung, a member of a legislative body of the Seoul Metropolitan Council, and 32 [...]
SEOUL, June 9 (Korea Bizwire) – When stories of young female students from low-income families who couldn’t afford to buy sanitary pads hit the airwaves, Koreans were outraged. Yuhan-Kimberly, Korea’s number-one manufacturer of sanitary pads, cancelled plans to raise its product prices by up to 20 percent (although it did increase the price of one [...]
SEOUL, June 4 (Korea Bizwire) – Yuhan-Kimberly, in response to the controversy around its plan to increase the price of sanitary pads, will be releasing a lower-priced sanitary pad product for low-income teens and females. The company revealed on June 3 that it will develop and release sanitary pads that maintain the company’s fundamental quality but [...]
SEOUL, June 1 (Korea Bizwire) – Stories of low-income teenagers using shoe insoles as sanitary pads, unable to afford the actual products, have been causing an uproar throughout Korean SNS. These real stories, posted on internet community sites, have provided a clear picture of the reality of poverty welfare policies and the deepening gap between the wealthy [...]