Politics of Belonging and Mothering of North Korean Women Migrants in South Korea

2018 ◽  
Vol 34 (4) ◽  
pp. 139-172
Author(s):  
Jiyeon Lee
Keyword(s):  
South Korea ◽  
Korean Women ◽  
Women Migrants

Health-seeking experience of North Korean women defectors in South Korea

2018 ◽  
Vol 35 (3) ◽  
pp. 192-201
Author(s):  
Chong-Hee Chung ◽  
Hee-Young Kang ◽  
Pamela K. Lake
Keyword(s):  
South Korea ◽  
Korean Women ◽  
Health Seeking

Mixed-Race Children and Their Korean Mothers

Framed by War ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 148-173
Author(s):  
Susie Woo
Keyword(s):  
South Korea ◽  
Mixed Race ◽  
The United States ◽  
Racial Identification ◽  
Korean Women ◽  
South Korean ◽  
Segregated Schools ◽  
Child Placement ◽  
Women And Children ◽  
Identification Practices

This chapter looks at what happened to the Korean women and children who remained in South Korea. It sets the stage by describing how President Rhee’s 1953 directive to remove children with American fathers to the United States heightened the vulnerability of those who stayed. The South Korean government worked closely with Harry Holt and in 1954 established Korea’s first welfare agency, Child Placement Service, expressly to remove mixed-race children. The chapter describes how US racial identification practices used to determine which children were “part-black” were introduced to and became institutionalized in South Korea. It also describes how Korean women were erased in this process. They were coerced to give up their mixed-race children and were offered no support from either government. For the children, solutions ranging from segregated schools to welfare reports that pathologized them as “social handicaps” relegated this population to the margins. The chapter ends with a consideration of how mixed-race children and the mothers who fought to raise them navigated the ongoing legacies of US militarization in South Korea.

Gender issues and Confucian scriptures: Is Confucianism incompatible with gender equality in South Korea?

2008 ◽  
Vol 71 (2) ◽  
pp. 345-362 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eunkang Koh
Keyword(s):  
South Korea ◽  
Gender Equality ◽  
Women's Education ◽  
Gender Issues ◽  
Korean Women ◽  
Ongoing Debate ◽  
Patriarchal Society ◽  
Confucian Philosophy ◽  
The Analects

AbstractKorean Confucianism has been described as “the enemy of feminism”: feminists often argue that Confucianism is the source of the patriarchal society. Feminist scholars have produced significant works about Confucianism's role in preserving the idea of women's subordination to men; they argue that the idea of men's superiority to women is embedded in Confucian philosophy. In this article I will examine whether Confucian philosophy is responsible for women's subordination to men in such Confucian texts as Naehun, The Book of Change, The Book of Poetry, and The Analects. Naehun was written by the mother of King Sǒngjong in 1475, for the purpose of the Confucian education of Korean women; I will look also at other, related, Confucian texts used for Korean women's education. Confucian classics such as The Book of Change, The Book of Poetry and Confucian Analects will be included in the analysis to investigate whether Confucianism legitimizes women's subordination tomen. In the analysis of these Confucian classics, I will focus on the ongoing debate between scholars of Confucianism and feminism in Korea today.

Conclusion

2020 ◽  
pp. 223-234
Author(s):  
Kori A. Graves
Keyword(s):  
South Korea ◽  
Mixed Race ◽  
Football Player ◽  
The United States ◽  
Korean Women ◽  
Transnational Adoption ◽  
Cultural Changes ◽  
Korean Children ◽  
International Media ◽  
Western Nations

Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, Korean transnational adoption would evolve to place more full Korean than mixed-race Korean children with families in Western nations. This shift was a consequence of political, social, economic, and cultural changes in South Korea and the United States that altered adoption priorities in both nations. As Western nations invested more money in orphanages and facilities to care for displaced, poor, and orphaned Korean children in South Korea, the Korean government embraced transnational adoption as an economic and social welfare solution. This transition helped to make invisible the struggles of Korea’s mixed-race populations and the vulnerable Korean women who became entangled in military prostitution. International media scrutiny has brought attention to the tragic circumstances that shape the lives of mixed-race Koreans and the Korean women who continue to relinquish their children for adoption. Events like the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul and the return of Korean black NFL football player Hines Ward Jr. to Seoul after he received the Super Bowl MVP in 2006 have forced Korean political leaders to reckon with the historical legacies of gender and racial oppression that have contributed to the marginalization of these populations.

Beyond #WithYou: The New Generation of Feminists and the #MeToo Movement in South Korea

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Ki-young Shin
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Sexual Harassment ◽  
South Korea ◽  
Sexual Violence ◽  
Sexually Abused ◽  
Korean Women ◽  
Government Action ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
New Generation

The #MeToo movement has shaken Korea over the last two years (Hasunuma and Shin 2019). Prosecutor Seo Ji-hyun's public testimony in January 2018 charged a former Ministry of Justice official with sexual harassment and catalyzed the #MeToo movement. Hundreds of Korean women came forward and spoke up about being sexually abused by powerful men. Social media platforms were flooded with hashtags such as #WithYou to support the movement and to express solidarity with victims of sexual violence. Women have taken to the streets for months demanding government action to prevent and punish sexual violence.

The right to see and not be seen: South Korean musicals and young feminist activism

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-50
Author(s):  
Jiyoon Jung
Keyword(s):  
South Korea ◽  
Capitalist Society ◽  
Korean Women ◽  
Feminist Activism ◽  
Safe Spaces ◽  
South Korean ◽  
The Right

In South Korea, musicals are considered as ‘female culture’. Based on recent fieldwork, this essay gives attention to the ways in which female fans project themselves in three common spaces: in dark theatre auditoriums, online fan forums and feminist protests. In each of the three spaces, female musical fans nurture and enact their own version of feminism. I employ the discourse of ‘voyeurism’ and ‘half-visibility’ to understand how young South Korean women navigate patriarchal capitalist society. I ultimately argue that today’s South Korean musicals empower young South Korean women by providing safe spaces for feminism.

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