(Source: Joseph Senior, via Visual News)

Just some quick links this week sorry, I’m very busy working on what feels like a dozen blog posts and offline articles at the moment!

• Recent controversial events in K-pop (My First Love Story)

• WTF Moment: Teen Top’s C.A.P and his jokes about domestic violence (Seoulbeats; see Feminoonas for updates)

• Iron Butterfly: memoir of a female Kuk Sool Won master (BBC News)

• Gay in Korea: foreign female perspective and foreign male perspective (Expatkerri)

• Sejong move splits families, hits female civil servants’ marriage prospects (Korea Joongang Daily)

• Portion of unmarried 30-something men growing, becoming social problem (Hankyoreh)

• Number of elementary school students in Seoul falls 30% in 10 years (Korea Times, via Gusts of Popular Feeling; see The Marmot’s Hole also for more on Korean demographics)

• Unemployed middle-aged men ostracized by their families (Chosunilbo)

• “In 2010, only 8.7% of working mothers in South Korea took maternity leave” (Hankyoreh)

• The importance of women for the future of Korea (Korea: Circles and Squares. And after reading that, make sure to check out this revealing photo too!)

(Links are not necessarily endorsements)