SEOUL, April 4 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean broadcasters have been hit with sexism charges from a media watchdog with their TV coverage of the PyeongChang Olympics. Despite having been praised as the least sexist Winter Games in history, 30 cases of sexist comments in a total of 325 broadcasting programs were uncovered by the Korea [...]
JEJU, Nov. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — Jeju Soju’s newly released ‘Purunbam’ is facing criticism over its labels ‘short night’, and ‘long night’ which, some claim, hint at sexual behaviors. The Jeju Association for Women’s Rights criticized Jeju Soju’s marketing, which the group claimed uses slurs from the sex industry, in a column published on Tuesday. [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 21 (Korea Bizwire) – The plight of female secretaries working for large corporations has come under the spotlight thanks to a study conducted by grad student Park Ji Yeon at Sookmyung Women’s University. Park crafted the study using in-depth interviews she carried out with 12 secretaries who had been on the job for [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — Sexism is rife in Korean TV dramas, a recent report of gender equality in the media from the Korean Institute for Gender Equality Promotion and Education (KIGEPE) has found. The KIGEPE’s monitoring of gender equality in the media revealed six out of ten female characters in Korean drama series tend [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 26 (Korea Bizwire) – The Korea Communications Standards Commission (KCSC) announced Sunday that will be revising its regulations on broadcasting deliberation in an effort to promote gender equality on television programs and for online video content. The amendment comes as a measure to combat Korea’s recently-expanding gender hatred culture, and will ban all [...]