Korean Gender Reader

Korean Gender Reader
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• KARA becomes the first girl-group to be made into figure dolls (Allkpop)

• Women’s rise reshaping society (The Korea Herald) vs. For Korean women, glass ceiling is more like concrete (The Korea Times)

• A positive class discussion of the latest blackface incident on MBC (Gord Sellar)

• Average wedding costs in South Korea (Roboseyo)

• Sex education for all US soldiers in Korea? (Gusts of Popular Feeling)

• Pregnant women getting more money? (The Waygook Effect)

• Blaming the victim? Most sex crimes happen on Seoul’s Line 2 because “many women commute to the Gangnam region and they wear relatively low-cut dresses and short skirts” (The Chosun Ilbo; also see As the Burndog Turns)

• Korea’s new adoption law is horrible (Roboseyo)

• Modelling bikinis in a Korean drama (Noona Blog: Seoul)

• Anti-bride wedding ideas shot down by mom (Shanghai Shiok)

• Foreign wives falling prey to loansharks after divorce (Asian Correspondent)

• Girls are not for sale (Groove Korea)

• Anger at photos of male politicians looking at porn and sleeping in National Assembly building (Global Voices)

• Oh Sister, where art thou?: Why bromance trumps sisterhood in K-dramas (Seoulbeats)

• Bump N CENSORED: A look at dance in K-Pop (Allkpop)

• Joseon women and money (The Jeju Weekly)

• After School’s “A little deeper, shake me around, make me tingle” lyrics deemed not harmful for teenagers (Soompi)

• Update: After School’s Bangkok City judged not to encourage youths to work in houses of ill-repute either (Enewsworld)

• Coverage of Chinese political conference comes in form of “beautiful female journalists” slideshow (The Jane Dough)

• Seeking Asian Female, a documentary about men who specifically seek out Asian women (Twitch Film; via @GlobalAsianista)

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4 thoughts on “Korean Gender Reader”

  1. Why is korea one of the biggest places for human trafficking and prostitution? Because most politicans ignore this problem more or less? I´ve searched the web, but I don´t find any clear answer :-/

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  2. That picture of those dolls is just *creepy*.
    On another note I kind of want to see the Seeking Asian Female documentary. Well, more than kind of but I don’t think I’ll have the opportunity in the near future.

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