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Selected Posts: Revealing the Korean Body Politic

Revealing the Korean Body Politic, Part 13: Free The Nipple in Korea? Why Not? Uncovering the history of a taboo

Revealing the Korean Body Politic, Part 12: If You Don’t Have Kim Yuna’s Vital Statistics, Your Body Sucks and You Will Totally Die Alone

Revealing the Korean Body Politic, Part 11: 노출이 강간 유혹?…허튼소리 말라 Wearing Revealing Clothes Leads to Rape? Don’t Be Absurd

Revealing the Korean Body Politic, Part 10: “An epic battle between feminism and deep-seated misogyny is under way in South Korea”

Revealing the Korean Body Politic, Part 9: To Understand Modern Korean Misogyny, Look to the Modern Girls of the 1930s

Revealing the Korean Body Politic, Part 8: The Bare-leg Bars of 1942

Revealing the Korean Body Politic, Part 7: Keeping abreast of Korean bodylines

Revealing the Korean Body Politic, Part 6: What is the REAL reason for the backlash?

Revealing the Korean Body Politic, Part 5: Links

Revealing the Korean Body Politic, Part 4: Girls are different from boys

Revealing the Korean Body Politic, Part 3: Historical precedents for Korea’s modern beauty myth

Revealing the Korean Body Politic, Part 2: Kwak Hyun-hwa (곽현화), Pin-up Grrrls, and The Banality of Sex and Nudity in the Media

Bikinis, Breasts, and Backlash: Revealing the Korean Body Politic in 2012

A reading list for Korean Feminism 101!

Selected Posts: Turning Boys Into Men? The Performance of Gender for South Korean Conscripts

Part 5: South Korea’s Invisible Military Girlfriends

Part 4: 17-Year-Old Tzuyu: “A Special Gift for Korean Men”

Part 3: Korean Lolita Nationalism: It’s a thing, and this is how it works

Part 2: Male Privilege at Korean Universities

Part 1: Turning Boys Into Men? The Performance of Gender for South Korean Conscripts

Selected Posts: Sex and K-pop

Consent is Sexy: SISTAR, slut-shaming, and sexual objectification in the Korean idol system

Pin-up Grrrl #2: Ga-in, Bloom, and why we’ll still be talking about both 30 years from now

Girl's Day and the New Lolitocracy: Part 1

Do "Sexy Concepts" Actually Work?

Miss A (Still) Don’t Need a Man…And Neither Did Destiny’s Child

The Origins of “Ajosshi Fandom”?

The Korean Popular Culture Reader: Out Now!

Selected Posts: Korean Sexuality

Korean Women’s Sexual Histories: Still a slippery subject

Quick Hit: “The Empowerment of the Pill in Korea”

Goodbye Madame Butterfly, Hello Sexless Marriage

Ministry of Health and Welfare: “Unwed Mothers are Ignorant Whores”

Why Korean Girls Don’t Say No: Contraception Commercials, Condom Use and Double Standards in South Korea

Quick Hit: Is there STILL a stigma against lingerie modeling in Korea?

Good women need our help, bad women need to be punished” — Learning about Sex Workers’ Rights in South Korea

Sex, Marriage, and Prostitution in South Korea

What IS the Age of Consent in South Korea?

Women Getting on Top: Korean Sexuality in Flux in the 1990s

Sex as Power in the South Korean Military

Abortion Republic No More?

Getting an Abortion in Korea

Challenging Stereotypes about Abortion

‘Room Cafes’ for Amorous Korean Teens: Dens of depravity or a necessary evil?

Korean Sex Ed Takes to the Road

Selected Posts: Body Image and the Korean Media

Those Damned Double Eyelids…

The Male Gaze and the Korean Mass Media (Or: Ways of Seeing Son Ye-jin as Fat…)

Korean Sociological Image #66 – Inventing Labels for Women’s Bodies

Guest Post: Challenging Korea’s Body Image Paradigm

“Making Pretty Women” (예쁜 여자 만들기) — Consumerism, S-lines, and Learning that Healthy≠Beautiful in 1930s Korea

SNL 코리아 Satirizes Korea’s Cosmetic Surgery Craze

Gender Studies 101: How the Korean media perpetuates negative body images

Why Did Allure Korea Take 10 Years to Have a Korean Cover Model?

Korean Sociological Image #18: Sexualizing Caucasian Women

Korean Sociological Image #52: Are Celebrities Removing the Stigma of Lingerie Modelling?

Korean Photoshop Disaster #7: I Hate You Lee Soo-kyeong…

Excessive Photoshopping in the Korean Media: A Korean Critique

Korean Sociological Image #40: As Pretty as a Picture? The Korean Ad Industry's Celebrity Obsession

Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Korea’s Celebrity Obsession, Part 1: The numbers

Selected Posts: Reading the Lolita Effect in South Korea

Reading the Lolita Effect in South Korea, Part 1: The role of K-pop and the Korean media in sexual socialization and the formation of body image

Reading the Lolita Effect in South Korea, Part 2: Six Year-Old Does KARA’s “Butt Dance” (엉덩이 춤) on “Shabekuri 007″

Reading The Lolita Effect in South Korea, Part 3: A Wave of Middle School Girls Wearing Make-up…Is it all Girl Groups’ Fault?

Syndrome (신드롬) by ChoColat (쇼콜라): Lyrics, Translation, and Explanation / Reading The Lolita Effect in South Korea, Part 4

Should the Sexualization of Teens in K-Pop be Banned?

The Origins of “Ajosshi Fandom”?

“Cleavage out, Legs in” — The Key to Understanding Ajosshi Fandom?

What did Depraved Oppas do to Girls’ Generation? Part 1

Ajosshis & Girls’ Generation: The Panic Interface of Korean Sexuality

Song Translations and Reviews

I am the Best (내가 제일 잘 나가) by 2NE1 (투애니원)

I Don’t Care by 2NE1 (투애니원)

Mirror Mirror (거울아 거울아) by 4Minute (포미닛)

Ah! (아!) by After School (애프터스쿨)

Bang! (뱅!) by After School (애프터스쿨)

Because Of You (너 때문에) by After School (애프터스쿨)

Pin-up Grrrl #2: Ga-in, Bloom, and why we’ll still be talking about both 30 years from now

Funky Man (펑키맨) by After School (애프터수쿨)

Girls on Top (걸스온탑) by BoA (보아)

SISTAR19: Begone, Calling Them “Objectified” Any Longer

Syndrome (신드롬) by Chocolat (쇼콜라)

Visual Dreams (비주얼드림) by Girls’ Generation (소녀시대)

Give it to me (줄래) by Lee Jeong-hyeon (이정현)

I’m a Golden Lady (골든레이디) by Lim Jeong-hee (임정희)

Isn’t It Beautiful? (얼마나 좋을까?) by Lee Soo-young (이수영)

Lupin (루팡) by KARA (카라)

Breathe (비리드) by Miss A (미쓰에이)

Bad Girl, Good Girl (배드걸 굿걸) by Miss A (미쓰에이)

I Don’t Need a Man (남자 없이 잘 살아) by Miss A (미쓰에이)

Watching SPICA’s “Tonight” is an Awesome Teaching Moment About the Male Gaze. Here’s Why. (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3.)

Pray (기도) by Sunny Hill (써니힐)

“Spring Girls,” by Sunwoo Jung-a, Is Both Feminist and as Sexy as Hell. Lets Give It the Attention It Deserves.

Like the First Time (처음처럼) by T-ara (티아라)

One More Chance (나 좀 봐줘) by The Grace (천상 지희) – Dana & Sunday (다나 & 선데이)

So Hot by the Wondergirls (원더걸스)

Selected Posts: Korean Feminism

Fighting Sexual Harassment at Samsung

Groping in Korea: Just How Bad Is It?

University Graduates: One Woman Hired for every Four Men

YTN: Sexual Jokes and Questions Common at Job Interviews

Korean Sociological Image #24: Childcare is Women’s Job

Korean Sociological Image #59: Childcare is (Still) Women’s Job!

Korean Sociological Image #63: Childcare No Longer Only Women’s Job!

Korean Women Angry at Being Promoted Less Than Men

Selected Posts: The Gender Politics of Smoking in South Korea

The Pee Doesn’t Lie: 1 in 4 young Korean women smoke (The Gender Politics of Smoking in South Korea, Part 5)

How Many Teenage Girls Are Smoking?

Quick Hit: Korea’s Hidden Smokers

Quick Hit: Living as a female smoker in Korea

The Gender Politics of Smoking in South Korea: Part 4

The Gender Politics of Smoking in South Korea: Newsflash

The Gender Politics of Smoking in South Korea: Part 3

The Gender Politics of Smoking in South Korea: Part 2

The Gender Politics of Smoking in South Korea: Part 1

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Selected Posts: Gender Advertisements in the Korean Context

Gender, Consumerism, & Advertising: The Sociological Rabbit Hole

Korean Sociological Image #48: The Male Gaze

Beauties and the Beast? Understanding and Subverting the Male Gaze through Soju Advertisements

Shin Min-a Shows Us How to Pose Like a Woman

Women's Typical Poses in Advertisements: A Pain in the Neck?

Korean Sociological Image #19: Gee, Gee, Gee…Using Girls’ Generation to Study Gender Roles in Korean Advertising

Why Size Matters: Feminine Representations of Men in Korean Advertising

“Gender Advertisements” in the Korean Context: Part 1

Sex, Sensibility and the Bottom Line: Evolving Images of Women in Korean Soju Advertising

Gender and the Unwritten Rules of Soju Advertisements

Korean (& Asian) Movie Reviews

Korean (Movie) Censors in Retreat?

1) A Good Lawyer’s Wife (2003)

2) Samaritan Girl/Samaria (2004)

3) Paju (2009)

4) Saving my Hubby (2002)

5) Linda Linda Linda (2005)

6) Air Doll (2009)

7) My Wife Got Married (2008)

8) One Million Yen Girl (2008)

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