SEOUL, Sept. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — A significant proportion of South Korean women have experienced workplace sexual harassment, a survey showed Sunday. According to a survey conducted by local pollster Embrain Public, upon the request of the civic organizations Gapjil 119 and the Beautiful Foundation, 35.2 percent of women said that they had experienced sexual [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — One out of 4 South Korean women have experienced sexual harassment or sexual violence at work, a survey showed Sunday. According to a survey conducted by pro-labor civic group Gabjil 119 of 1,000 wage workers, consisting of 570 men and 430 women, 25.8 percent of the women and 10.9 [...]
SEOUL, June 8 (Korea Bizwire) — The changing working environment caused by the pandemic has led to dwindling cases of sexual harassment, a survey showed Tuesday. The Ministry of Gender Equality and Family conducted a poll of 15,158 employees at public institutions and private companies, with 4.8 percent of respondents saying that they had been [...]
SEOUL, May 19 (Korea Bizwire) — More than eight out of 10 people who reported sexual harassment at the workplace said they suffered from some form of retaliation, a civic group reported Thursday. Gapjil 119, which campaigns against workplace abuses, announced its analysis of the 205 reports it received from abuse victims between January 2021 [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean video game giant NCSOFT Corp., stricken with criticism over newly released game and a plunging share price, is yet again facing a sexual harassment case. An anonymous whistleblower at the company posted on Blind, an anonymous community of employed workers, that “certain individuals notorious for committing sexual [...]
SEOUL, June 2 (Korea Bizwire) — A majority of the graduate students who experienced sexual harassment or violence on campus identified professors as offenders, a survey showed Tuesday. The Student Support Office at Kyung Hee University recently conducted a survey of all of the university’s graduate students, consisting of 83 male students and 230 female [...]
SEOUL, May 8 (Korea Bizwire) — Men and women in their 20s show the biggest difference in their levels of sexual harassment understanding and gender equality consciousness than other age groups, research released by the state human rights watchdog said Saturday. According to the report by the National Human Rights Commission of Korea (NHRCK), men [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 25 (Korea Bizwire) – Kim Jong-cheol, the chief of the progressive minor Justice Party, stepped down Monday for sexually harassing a female lawmaker of the same party. It is the first time that the head of an established political party has resigned due to sexual misconduct. The unprecedented case is expected to deal a [...]
BUSAN, April 23 (Korea Bizwire) — The mayor of Busan, South Korea’s largest port city, on Thursday resigned and apologized for sexual harassment. “In a short meeting that lasted five minutes, there was unnecessary physical contact with a person. I realized that this could be recognized as an indecent assault, (something) that should not have [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — Recent data shows that 8 out of 100 employees in the public service or at private companies in South Korea have suffered from sexual harassment at work. However, of the total victims, more than 80 percent suffered the harassment in silence and did nothing about it. According to the [...]