Korean Gender Reader

(Source: Stuff No One Told Me, via My Journal)

Sorry for the slow posting everyone: I’ve had a bad cold for 3 days. But I’m nearly better :)

Announcements

— Film Screening: Sa Bangji/사방지, Korean Queer Archive, Friday 26 October (The Kimchi Queen)

Body Image, Health

— Angry Little Asian Girl pokes fun at the Asian stereotype (Mochi Magazine)

— Beware of Image Changes (Seoulbeats)

— On Our Radar: DVF and China (Thick Dumpling Skin)

— Music Video Lessons: Ailee’s “I Will Show You” teaches us that it’s okay to be an asshole (Asian Junkie)

— Girls’ Generation, SECRET & more reveal their diet meal plans (My Journal)

— Roundtable: Picture Perfect (Seoulbeats)

— Modesty in Australia vs. China (Speaking of China)

— Hong Kong woman dies after shady ‘beauty’ treatment intended for cancer patients (Jezebel)

Censorship, Media

— Erroneous report of the murder of COOL’s Yuri basically sums up the state of the Korean media (Asian Junkie)

— Media manages to make false story of COOL’s Yuri’s murder worse by outing victim’s details (Asian Junkie)

— 40 Months for stealing Korean broadcasts (The Marmot’s Hole)

— This year’s collection of foreign teacher cartoons (Gusts of Popular Feeling)

— More cartoons full of needles and gropers (Gusts of Popular Feeling)

— Why not the Corea? (Expat Hell)

— YG Entertainment & Lee Michelle may be having issues, so let’s invent narratives! (Asian Junkie)

— South Korea: Professor Acquitted in Obscenity Case (The New York Times)

— Bias Tracker: Why does allkpop trash certain events but not others? (Asian Junkie)

— Trending: China Skepticism (Seeing Red in China)

Crime

— Alarming Rise in Sex Crimes Committed by Teens (The Chosun Ilbo)

— Park Geun-hye pledges to expand police force to bolster public safety (The Korea Times)

— It’s Not Easy Being a Yakuza Boss, Part 1 (Japan Subculture Research Center)

Dating, Relationships, Marriage

— Black and Asian Couple, Lily and James’s love story (Facebook Page)

— 10 examples of how lovers match their outfits in South Korea (MSN Now)

— Why Korean Men Marry Foreign Women (The Chosun Ilbo)

— Feeling Sexy as a Mom (Geek in Heels)

— Asian Women “Too Tempting” To Husbands/Boyfriends? Please (Speaking of China)

— Ask the Yangxifu: My Chinese Boyfriend Doesn’t Express His Feeings (Speaking of China)

Education, Parenting, Demographics

— Spending the Last Year as a Teenager Outside of School (ILDA)

— Is Corporal Punishment Good or Bad? (Koreabridge)

— On Getting Behind in the Parenting Game (On Becoming a Good Korean (Feminist) Wife)

— ExamiNation: A short documentary (Lost in Traffic Lights)

Economics, Politics, Workplaces, Ladygate

— Korean Professor Uses Twitter to Critcise Online Misogyny Trend (Korea BANG)

— Cook, clean, and be pretty (The Korea Times)

— Seniority-based Promotions being Replaced by Merit-based Promotions in Korea (The Korea Law Blog)

— ‘Testosterone is the problem’ [in the finance industry] (The Korea Times)

— Cracks in the Asian glass ceiling (Business Without Borders)

— Feminist Feels Pity For Men in Continued Online Misogyny Debate (Korea BANG)

— “I’d rather sell my c*nt than my paintings”: Women artists’ position in China 20 years ago and today (The F-word)

— The All-China Women’s Federation, propping up patriarchy since 1949 (Shanghaiist)

— It’s easier for Chinese women to become astronauts than members of the Standing Committee (Shanghaiist)

— China’s ‘Leftover’ Women (The New York Times)

— Powerful Chinese men still straight pimpin’, all about the bitches (Shanghaiist)

Gangnam Style

— Why ‘Gangnam Style’ Didn’t Catch Fire Instantly in China and Japan (Asianaut)

— Gangnam Style out of the most viewed music chart due to YouTube changes (Omona They Didn’t!)

— How YouTube Just Screwed “Gangnam Style” [Update] (Kotaku)

— Should We Be Scared of Gangnam Style? (Seoulbeats)

History

— Cut your hair or go to jail (The Hankyoreh)

LGBT, Sexuality

— Interview with Harry: Being gay is nice because I don’t have to deal with aegyo (The Kimchi Queen)

— Chinese sex fair shows how prudishness and liberation sit side-by-side (The Guardian)

— K. Will’s New Single is Fantastic (The Kimchi Queen)

— Reaction to Seoulbeats Review of K.Will’s Please Don’t music video 케이윌 이러지마 제발 (Korean Gender Cafe)

— The Shifting Terrain of Sex in China (Scene Asia)

— Reading List: KoreAm Journal- The Queer Issue (The Kimchi Queen)

— Director set to marry his boyfriend (Korea Joongang Daily)

— How to come out to a Korean friend (Lost in Traffic Lights)

Miscellaneous

— My Korean identity: Michael Hurt (Groove Magazine)

— The 정 Challenge (Gord Sellar)

Pop Culture

— Unpopular Opinion: Enough with the Aegyo Bashing! (Seoulbeats)

— The Five Faces Of E.via (Frank Kogan)

— Working hypothesis on appropriation in pop culture: response to Occupied Territories (Occupied Territories)

— A Response to Occupied Territories (Frank Kogan)

— K-Pop Boot Camp: Video (Nightline)

— The grim reality behind the rise of the entertainment market (Omona They Didn’t!)

— Video: K-Pop Group 2NE1 Discuss Breaking Into the U.S (Wall Street Journal, Forbes, MTVK)

— Are Lost Foreigners a Lost Case in Variety? (Seoulbeats)

— Why would anyone sign up with SM Entertainment? (Angry K-pop Fan)

— Perspectives: K-pop in Japan (And a Bit About the World) (Seoulbeats)

— Dear Kpop Music Industry: Why is it so hard to find out the director of a video? (YAM Magazine)

Social Problems

— Daegu parents seek solution to student suicides (The Hankyoreh)

— Court Bans Sign Language Interpreters (Human Rights Monitor)

— A Few Things to Realize About Bullying (Gord Sellar)

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