Oksun Lee, one of the ‘Comfort Women’ survivors, attended her first walkathon on the 13th at the 2017 17th Women's Marathon at the World Cup Park in Seoul. She was wearing a yellow scarf with a beige jacket and pink flower hat. She replied with a calm smile to those who said hello to her. A fell

Kawtar El Alaoui(Transformational Life and Executive Coach) starts to publish column titled ‘Kawtar El Alaoui's Women's stories in global village’ every other week. She was born in Morocco, studied law in Canada, became middle class housewife in Egypt, divorced and lived as single mum. She r

Experts Say Women are Bringing Strength to Crisis ManagementMale Engagement Identified as Key Component in Promoting Equality Feminine qualities are required to cope successfully with today’s risk-filled business environment, a global management forum on gender equality concluded on Wednesday.‘Asia-

“I’ve seen young men suffering from mental illness, unable to ask for help for fear it would make them less of a man… Men don’t have the benefits of equality, either.”British actress and Goodwill Ambassador for UN Women, Emma Watson, spoke about gender inequality. Watson’s speech at UN last Septembe

Are you aware of the UN Women’s gender equality movement campaign ‘HeForShe’? From all over the world, 308,814(as of May 27th) men have participated since it started last July. It is a campaign specifically aimed for men. The name itself, ‘he for she’, suggests that men be actively engaged and invol

34 days after the accident, President Park Geunhye apologized saying "The ultimate responsibility for failing to properly deal with the disaster lies with me." At the same time, Park highlighted that the immediate cause of the accident was the dereliction of duty by the captain and some crew members

There were two female ministers at the Cabinet when the Park administration took office. However, it is now down to one. With the appointment of the ruling party lawmaker Lee Jooyoung as the Minister of Ocean and Fisheries, Minister Cho of Gender Equality and Family is now the only female minister.

Two days before the Sochi Games began, the Internet was abuzz about an article on the ‘three beautiful ladies in Sochi,’ namely figure skating champ Kim Yuna, ski jumper Sara Takanashi, and teenage slalom queen Mikaela Shiffrin. The article was posted on Naver, Korea’s largest search portal website.

At a time when social media and blogs have become an essential venue for women activists, Michelle Goldberg’s column “Feminism’s Toxic Twitter Wars” has set up a debate. In her subtitle, she wrote, “Empowered by social media, feminists are calling one another out for ideological offenses. Is it good

The main goal of ‘UN Women’, UN’s integrated organization for the protection of human rights and interests of women, is to bring an end to violence against women and realize gender equality. In order to raise awareness on gender equality and eliminate violence against women, various events take plac

The impenetrable “glass ceiling” of prosecutors’ organization has finally been broken. The heroine who pierced through the thick wall is the prosecutors’ ‘biggest sister’ Cho Hee-jin (51, graduate of 19th class of Judicial Research and Training Institute), who was newly appointed as the chief prosec

As the vice-chairwoman of Industrial Bank of Korea (IBK)’s risk-management team Kwon Seon-joo (57·photo) became the newly appointed bank CEO, an era of female bank CEOs began. On December 23, the Financial Services Commission recommended vice-chairwoman Kwon as the next term IBK CEO, stating that sh

"How dare, you woman!" No one would imagine saying such a thing now, but you could commonly hear it in 1980s. Innocent women could easily become guilty just because they were women. In 1988, in order to overcome gender discrimination and establish true democracy, 1,000 shareholders gathered and crea

A year has passed since the presidential election finished that made President Park Geun-hye the first female leader in East Asia. People expected that the glass ceilings everywhere would break now that we have a woman as the nation’s leader. Another expectation people had for Park was that she’d be

Peace Plaza of Olympic Park located in Songpa-gu, Seoul was filled with red waves of 3,000 volunteers in Santa costume. Marking its 8th anniversary this year, the Santa Sports Up Festival is a family sports event that has been donating part of its proceeds to aspiring youth athletes of unpopular spo

“Whenever my dad didn’t feel good or had something that didn’t suit him, he would punch my mom with his fist. My mom was defenseless, without a chance to stop the beating and kicking. Once when I was in middle school, my dad pounded my mom on her head with an electric screwdriver, making her bleed f

The Women’s News (WN) launched a 9-parted forum on ‘Gender Equal Countries’ this April in order to observe Korea’s status quo in terms of gender equality and to draw a blueprint to make our society more gender equal. The forum covered all aspects of our society including labor, education, culture, e

Every year, during last week of February and the first week of March, UN Women, the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women, organizes Commission on the Status of Women held at United Nations Headquarters in New York, United States. During these two weeks, the Headquar

Working mothers are miserable. Women and Culture In Network calculated the misery index of working mothers based on data from a survey funded by Ministry of Gender Equality and Family. The misery index reached 3.33, 0.29 increase from the previous year’s reading of 3.04. This result shows how work-l

25 years of Women News’ history marks a special place in the history of Korean media. Women News was born as “the only women newspaper in Korea” to speak for women in 1988, when women’s movement was first ignited thanks to the flaming democratization movement. With such sense of calling, Women News