Korean Gender Reader: Slutwalk Next Saturday!

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See here, here, and here for the organizers’ Facebook event page, Facebook group, and blog respectively. Alas, there isn’t any information available in English, but R0boseyo’s excellent write-up of last year’s event gives you a good idea of what to expect.

Update: The “Slut Walk Korea Declaration 2012” has an English translation.

Body Image/Health:

— Do I look fat in this country? A look at beauty ideals in Korean culture (Chatelaine)

— “Rougan”: How My Husband Helped Me Love My Curves (Speaking of China)

— Big Boobs in Korea (Eat Your Kimchi)

— Continued Criticism of Miss Korea Pageant (Korea Human Rights News; scroll down for translation)

— London 2012 Olympics: let’s celebrate sportswomen’s bodies (The Guardian)

— Comic Book Industry Rejects Human-looking Female Characters (Escher Girls)

— Blog Shoutout: Women’s Comic Book Poses in Real Life (Maxi and April)

— Snoop Dogg vs. SONEs: The Tweet Heard ‘Round the K-popiverse (Seoulbeats)

— North Korea Experts Can See a Lot in a Hemline (The New York Times; Asia Times)

Censorship:

— Rolling Changes in K-pop (Seoulbeats)

— China arrests 31 in U.S.-hosted porn website crackdown (People’s Daily Online)

— Bill to ban alcohol ads by young celebrities (The Korea Times, EUCAM; see The Wall Street Journal also)

Crime:

— Girl Posts Picture of Alleged ‘Molesting’ Man on Bus (Korea Bang)

— Teen rape exposes dark side of the Korean Web (Korea Joongang Daily)

— Anti-Trafficking NGO to Set Up Shop in Korea (The Chosun Ilbo)

— “Looking for Pretty Women: Minimum 1 Million Won per Day” (Human Rights Monitor)

— Foreign Ministry engulfed in sexual harassment case (The Korea Times)

Dating/Relationships/Marriage:

— Getting Your Marriage Certificate in China (My Beijing Survival Diary)

— Dating in Korea (Rok On!)

— Ask the Yangxifu: My Boyfriend Doesn’t Understand My Past Child Abuse (Speaking of China)

“The Reality and Twisted Values of Some White Men” Series at Gusts of Popular Feeling:

— Part 8: After the ‘hidden camera sex’ report… victim hurt again through ‘comment terror’

— Who’s Hunting Who? (The Korea Times, The Marmot’s Hole)

— Newspaper Reveals the ‘Truth’ About Foreigners in Korea (Korea Bang)

LGBT/Sexuality:

— LGBT Groups Oppose Reappointment of NHRCK Byung-chul Hyun (Human Rights Monitor)

— Xiyadie depicts homosexual love in Chinese paper-cuts (Los Angeles Times)

— Dance, Mingle, Be Gay (Matt Lemon Photography)

Misc:

— Tokyo’s new Robot Girls Restaurant will bring out your inner cyber-fetishist (io9)

— London 2012: Japan, Australia and organisers face sexism claims (The Guardian)

— China 2050: Caucasians to Become China’s Migrant Workers in the Future? (Chinasmack; Ministry of Tofu)

— Koreans are Individualistic (in Stressful Environments) (Via Korea)

— Is it okay to bar the visually impaired from bath houses? (Ilda)

Politics/Economics/Workplaces:

— How to avoid false accusations of sexual harassment (I’m No Picasso)

— Dreaming of a future where people finish work at 5pm (The Wall Street Journal)

— Solbi shares that she was in a sexual harassment prevention video (Allkpop)

— Problems with Korea’s labor law (this time from an employee perspective) (Korea Law Today)

— Best Places to Work in Korea (Human Rights Monitor)

— Park Geun-hye pledges after-school childcare for working couples (The Korea Times)

— Are Koreans ready for woman president? (The Korea Times)

— Lighting the way to female leadership (The Korea Times)

Pop Culture:

— How To Be The Asian Female TV/Movie Sidekick (8asians)

— Gender and Race: The Relationship Between Same-Sex Couples and Interracial Depictions in US Television (Overthinking)

— Being branded as a K-pop fan (Angry K-pop Fan)

— New drama series “Answer to 1997” to tackle obsessive fans (My First Love Story)

— Why all the English phrases in K-pop? (Angry K-pop Fan)

— Variety Screen Time: An Idol’s Ongoing Battle (Seoulbeats)

— ‘You only like Korean idols because they’re good looking’: the role of visuals in K-pop (Angry K-pop Fan; Part 2)

Pregnancy/Abortion/Childbirth/Demographics/Parenting/Education/Multiculturalism:

— National economy threatened by shrinking population (The Hankyoreh)

— After corporal punishment debate, Korean students still being hit (Asian Correspondent)

— Refugee Rights Movement Finally Takes Root in Korea (Human Rights Monitor)

— Mandatory HIV Testing Policy Challenged at the International Level – Korea charged with violating racial discrimination treaty (Gusts of Popular Feeling, Voice of America)

— Op-Ed: A Need to Better Understand Youth Suicide Issues in Korea (Human Rights Monitor)

— Life about to get enough tougher for migrant workers (The Hankyoreh)

(Links are not necessarily endorsements)