"A nineteen-year-old kid who started singing because she loved songs. Songs were my friends, in sorrow or in pain." (from 'Even After I Leave' in )Yang Hee Eun, who debuted at the age of 19 with the song 'Morning Dew' in 1971, celebrated her 30th anniversary as a si

At the beginning of each year, The Women's News picks out women to receive the 'Women Leaders of the Future' Award. This year, the paper picked ten women as the second batch of recipients of this award.The 'Women Leaders of the Future' Awardees are selected among women in their t

"Yoo Gwan Sun?" "I'm just an ordinary person who likes to play and is a pretty good hip-hop dancer. What would I know about Yoo Gwan Sun …"Lines from 'The Flower Lives and Sings,' a play in commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the death of martyr Yoo Gwan Sun. Graduates of Ehwa Girls

Having served as the Head Nursing Officer in the Military Capital Hospital and as the Principal of the Armed Forces Nursing Academy since her appointment as the 29th class of nursing officers in 1973, Colonel Yang Seung Sook is well known among the nursing officers as a "big-hearted person." In part

For the first time in the 53-year-old history of the Korean military, a woman was promoted to general. Colonel Yang Seung Sook, the nursing officer of the ROK Army Headquarters. Upon hearing of her promotion to general (to take effect from January 2, 2002), the commissioned officers in the nursing c

How do youths in Korea feel about the world situation since the terrorist attacks on September 11? The Women's News met up with 18-year-old Kang Jinkyung (JK), Baek Sumin (SM), Lee Sukyung (SK) and Kang Jinyoung (JY) from Daeil Foreign Language High School to hear their thoughts on America's

"All the resources have been organized in one book." That is how Lee Ok Ji, who co-authored "Women workers led the labor movement until the mid-1980's, and became the foundation of the labor movement today."However, the women were overshadowed by male workers in conglomerates and heavy industrie

The Korean Women's Trade Union (KWTU, headed by Choi Sang Lim) celebrated its second birthday on August 29. Established with the goal of "organizing women workers by overcoming the limitations of existing labor unions," the KWTU held a forum on its second birthday entitled "Methods of Women-Frie

"Whenever I see newspaper or magazine reports in China of Korean comfort women demonstrating in front of the Japanese Embassy or of the International Tribunal on war crimes, I scrutinize them in the hopes of spotting my mother."Yun Young Shik (aged 58, living in Heilongjiang, China) came to Korea in

"When I was in U-do, I trained for two weeks wearing only my underwear and a headband. I didn't really know back then what I was doing."Go E-Hwa is the 87-year-old Haenyeo (women who dive into the sea to gather food) from North Jeju Island who received the first Jeju Haenyeo Award, created by th

Lee Jeong Hyang and Lim Soon Rye are two women film directors whose well-rounded works are gaining ground in a film industry where the rules of the game are still tipped against women. Lee, who started out from the bottom in 1988, worked her way up through Chungmu-ro (Korea's version of Hollywoo

"The problem that enthralls me is the cultural crisis and intellectual roots of our times. I do not distinguish ideal from reality in my mind, and cannot separate the political reality from the artistic spirit. Life and ideas are two sides of the same coin. 'Reality' is the lens I use to sea

Chun Jeong-sun , a North Korean who escaped her country and made her way to South Korea, made headlines this time as the first-ever North Korean defector to become a school teacher.Ever since coming to South Korea, Ms. Chun had tried out for several jobs such as insurance saleswoman and chef, but ha

Minister Han has both the theoretical and practical training she needs for the job. She has been an activist with the women's movement for 30 years. She has an accurate impression of current issues concerning women, and also a post-graduate degree in Women's Studies. She is said to be the mo

The Ministry of Gender Equality is the first-ever Ministry in Korea to take charge of women's policies. The first person appointed to head this new Ministry is Millennium Democratic Party's Han Myongsook. The 57-year-old Minister Han used to head the Presidential Commission on Women's Af