‘Women’s eNews,’ US online news service covering women’s issues, announced its ’21 Leaders for 21st Century 2014’ that they select every 1st of January. Every year Women’s eNews picks three unique themes and finds a total of 21 leaders including 1 male in each field. Diverse people have been selecte

“Career interruption,” a problem plaguing women for so long, has become one of the top priorities for this administration.President Park Geun-hye declared at the press conference on the 6th and the cabinet meeting the next day that she would “create a Korea where no woman has to suffer from career i

The 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics will begin in about a month. The games will begin on Feb. 8th (local time) and last for 17 days through the 24th. Athletes from around the world will compete to win gold medals in 98 events in 15 sports including ski and ice skating. Team Korea’s goal is to win over 4

On the 7th, President Park Geun-hye declared that she would “create a Korea where no woman has to suffer from career interruption due to childbirth and childrearing.”“Until now, many policies focused on supporting women who already experience career interruption to return to the job market,” explain

Along with the rise of powerful women in all sectors, the auto industry is also welcoming more women executives. As of Jan. 3rd, Hyundai Motors and Kia Motors each has one female executive on the board. Choi Myunh-hwa is Hyundai's managing director, and Chae Yang-seon is Kia's assistant mana

6 out of 8 ‘Young Leaders to Watch in 2014’ that the US online economy news website ‘Business Insider’ has chosen were women. Business Insider evaluated that “these leaders have shown innovative momentum in their industries like economy, society, and culture and are voices of their generation.”The f

2014, the year of the blue horse, started with good news about powerful women being appointed for significant positions at the Prosecution, banking industry, and other parts of our society that used to be dominated by men. The news isn't just about these women's individual success story; it

2013 was a year that began with hope and ended with anxiety. A female president was born for the first time in the history of the constitutional government, but no women made it into the Blue House Secretariat. Former Blue House Spokesman Yoon Chang-jung’s sexual harassment involving an intern, form

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

Every December 10 is globally celebrated as Human Rights Day. Ever since the United Nations (UN) General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948, various movements and events to protect human rights have been held every year across the world. As a result, awareness on huma

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

This year was marked by women who rose high up as the leader around the world. Korea, Germany, Chile, and in many other countries, women have succeeded in seizing power as the leader. Meanwhile, the passing of Iron Lady Thatcher, former British Prime Minister, brought sorrow to people. The shutdown

"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

“I am enjoying my work. After I started working, I became healthier. I am grateful for being able to wake up in the morning and go somewhere to work. I earn money and listen to music; it sure is worthwhile. My friends envy me, and they would like to work as well.”Located at Nagwon-dong, Jongno-gu, S

“Misery Index for Workingmoms (Journalist Cho Hye-young, Park Gil-ja, Lee Ha-na, Kim Soo-hee, and Hee-sun),” a special coverage reported by the Women’s News(“WN”) won the honors award for the Press category at the Gender Equality Award ceremony hosted by Ministry of Gender Equality and Family and or

The source of all modern diseases is stress. Studying, searching for a job, working, raising children… there’s no time to rest. But everyone has their own way of blowing away stress. Some do it through sports. Women’s News reports on the attraction of sports according to female sports maniacs in the

Moon Yonglin, the Superintendent of the Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education, said that it’s hard to nurture creative talents in the current limited Korean education paradigm.Moon gave a lecture titled, “How to turn Korea into a creative society” at the breakfast seminar of Korea CEO Summit (Chair

"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