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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)
• 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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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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For a good start, try Research Project Korea.
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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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wth is up with all these asians that look anything but…
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