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.

Lee Sanghwa grabbed gold in the women’s 500m race held at the Adler Arena Skating Center in Sochi. She became the first Asian to retain the 500m speed skating title.In the two-race competition, Lee skated a combined time of 74.70 seconds, with 37.42 seconds in the opening race and 37.28 in the secon

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

Despite Japan’s pressure on the organizing committee to reconsider the Korean exhibition on “comfort women” issue, “Flowers That Never Fade” was held successfully.During the four-day Angouleme International Comics Festival, around 17,000 people visited the Korean cartoon exhibition featuring the com

Since Korean society adopted Confucianism during the Joseon Dynasty, marriage between Koreans of the same surname and a common ancestor in their paternal lineage has been prohibited. The principle was codified as Article 809 in 1957, causing many couples with the same name and clan to opt for death

Recently, a photograph of four female defence ministers of Norway, Sweden, the Netherlands, and Germany went viral. They are Ine Eriksen Søreide (Norway), Karin Enström (Sweden), Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert (Netherlands), and Ursula von der Leyen (Germany).The photograph was taken in one of the confe

On February 4, the government proposed its plan to assist women’s participation in economic activities in accordance with their life cycle. This is a meaningful attempt in that numerous branches of the government pulled together for the first time to combine all the relevant measures that were admin

Though it was quite dreary at around 7 in the morning, the sky cleared up at 10 when the memorial service began.The former comfort woman Hwang Geumja died on January 28, aged 91. Around 1500 citizens attended her funeral ceremony which took place at the backyard of the Gangseo District Office, Seoul

Remarriages amongst middle-aged singles have soared due to gains in life expectancy and changed attitude toward a second marriage. However, remarrying does not guarantee greater life satisfaction because a couple has to deal with additional complications that did not exist in the first marriage.Stat

Masashi Nakano, a member of the House of Councilors, has drawn criticism for making a connection between the use of “comfort women” or sex slaves used by Japanese soldiers during World War II and the sex industry as it exists today in countries like South Korea and China.On January 30, The Asahi Shi

Switzerland’s part-time employment system is grabbing much attention. Since President Park Geunhye’s state visit to Switzerland, there has been a growing call to benchmark against the part-time employment system of Switzerland which boasts female employment rate of 73% and keeps its title as the mos

“The first priority is to recover parent-child relationship. If parents trust and respect their children, the children will become healthy and study well. Even though they do not do well at school, they will think about their means of living in the future.”Producer(PD) Park Jin-hong, who directed th

On the 17th (local time), Wall Street Journal(WSJ) reported that Korean-American woman Angela Warnick Buchdahl(41·photo) was appointed as a senior rabbi of New York’s biggest Jewish synagogue. WSJ reported about Angela, who succeed rabbi Peter Rubinstein(71) and start her term from July 1st, that ‘h

“Reunification is a jackpot” has become the latest buzz word. If a reunification through which both parties can co-exist and co-prosper is achieved through inter-Korean talks and negotiations, it is clearly a jackpot. However, what truly makes reunification a jackpot is a society where men and women

Min Dong-seok Secretary-General of Korean National Commission for UNESCO displayed ex-government officials' lack of awareness on gender equality by limiting women support to underdeveloped countries, saying "There is enough women's participation in reality even without special programs targe

“The war is over but still no liberation.”At noon of last wednesday on the 8th when the cold swept the country, the weekly demonstration to solve the Japanese military ‘comfort women’ issue marked its 22nd anniversary. About 300 people gathered in front of the Japanese embassy in Jongno-gu, Seoul. P

With the Sochi Winter Olympics coming ahead, ‘Ice queen’ Kim Yuna(24) said on the 14th “I will finish the last festival without too much burden.” At the Sochi Winter Olympics ice national team media day held at the Taereung International Skating Rink, Gongneung-dong, Nowon-gu, Seoul, Kim Yuna said,

Although there is much attention focused on ‘work-life balance,’ there is a lot of criticism made that most systems and policies only concentrate on ‘normal families’ formed through marriage and exclude other types of families and singles. Currently most of the policies for work-life balance are mat

A female model who has just finished a splendid walking returns backstage. She hardly has time to even breathe. In 2 minutes, she must be ready fully dressed in the clothes, shoes and accessories for her next walk. She is completely naked. Undressing and dressing again for the next stage repeats, an