SEOUL, March 28 (Korea Bizwire) – Twenty student groups from 12 universities in the Seoul metropolitan area are promoting a solidarity campaign dubbed the Penguin Project to bring changes to the local campus culture that privately, and sometimes openly, discriminates against women. The campaign’s title was inspired by a French book on sexual assault and [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 9 (Korea Bizwire) – A government source said Thursday that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs recently held its first meeting dedicated to enforcing stronger discipline of Korean diplomats, after forming a task force dedicated to the undertaking. The move follows a scandal last year involving a South Korean diplomat stationed in Chile, in [...]
SUWON, Sept. 21 (Korea Bizwire) – A brave citizen who chased and caught a sexual harassment suspect is soon to be summoned for police questioning after the offender died shortly after being apprehended. On August 13 at 8:10 p.m., 32-year-old Kim (full name undisclosed) witnessed “A” (39-year-old male) displaying a public lewd act through the [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 1 (Korea Bizwire) – The Seoul Metropolitan Government revealed Sunday that it has assigned 50 Women’s Safety Inspectors to start monitoring public and commercial areas like restrooms and dressing rooms to unearth unlawful ‘hidden cameras’ that have grown rapidly in recent years. According to police statistics, the number of hidden camera-related sexual harassment [...]
SEOUL, July 12 (Korea Bizwire) – Last August, a 10-minute video filmed inside a woman’s changing room at a domestic water park was uploaded to an online adult community. The video exposed dozens of women, from children to teenagers and mothers in their most vulnerable and shameful moments. The video was filmed by a 27-year-old [...]
Seoul, July 14 (Korea Bizwire) — A court has ruled that a female boss who sexually harassed a new female employee should pay reparations. This is an exceptional judgement because compensation for damages was recognized for sexual harassment between members of the same sex. Shin Young-hee, a Civil judge at the Seoul Central District Court, [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — The student council of state-run Seoul National University (SNU) launched Wednesday a body to cope with sex offenses on campus following a recent series of sexual harassment cases involving professors. Prof. Kang Seok-jin from the Mathematical Sciences Department at SNU, the most prestigious institution of higher learning in the [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 24 (Korea Bizwire) – It is reported that female migrant workers are easily exposed to one of the worst human rights violations, sexual abuse, in South Korea. Of the migrant women working in South Korea, 10.7 percent went through sexual harassment or sexual assault, according to data conducted by a human rights advocacy [...]
SEOUL, Sep. 26 (Korea Bizwire) – It is totally disgraceful that the number of sexual assault cases from people with so-called prestigious occupations passes 400 within one year, as their sexual violence and harassment are recurring. The jobs include lawyers, professors, religious leaders, journalists, artists, and doctors. The number of such professionals accused of a [...]