Vice-director of the Korea Party Politics Research Institute Son Hyuk Jae, who gave a presentation at the discussion to evaluate the public hearing on Chang Sang, said that "the biggest reason behind the vote against Chang's appointment, which in turn undermined the historic significance of the

Women groups came together to discuss the issue of Prime Minister appointee Chang Sang being rejected by the National Assembly on July 31, bringing to naught the appointment of the first-ever woman Prime Minister in Korea.During the discussion, participants said that although the result of the vote

As a result of the by-elections on August 8, the Grand National Party (GNP) took the victory in 11 of the 13 constituencies - 7 districts within Seoul and its environs including Jongno, Yeongdeungpo B and Geumcheon, Jin A and Haeundae in Busan, Masan-Habpo in Gyeongnam, and Bukjeju in Jeju-do - wher

Five civic groups including the Cyber NGO Archive of Sungkonghoe University jointly produced and launched on July 2 a 35-minute educational CD-ROM entitled containing a new perspective of the Vietnam War and the fact-finding missions concerning the ci

There is rising domestic and international concern regarding North Korean women defectors in China who live in the shadows of human rights. The Chinese government, however, is cracking down severely on groups that support North Korean refugees, blocking ways to actually help these people.Amnesty Int

The 'Equal Media Award of the Year,' founded by the 21st Century Women Media Network in 2000 to realize gender equality in the media and to protect the rights of women media workers, awarded the first prize to The Women's News. The Network announced that it had chosen The Women's New

- What is your position on professor K's libel suit?"All I did was answer questions asked about the case according to what I know. How else is a sociology professor teaching Women's Studies supposed to act when she hears that her students are victims of sexual violence? Furthermore, I was no

Women have started watering their leaf vein networks. On June 15, under the auspices of the Ministry of Gender Equality and the management of Bizwoman, the 'Cyber Mentoring' sisterhood ceremony was held at the Seoul Women's Plaza, where 100 mentor-mentee pairs met for the first time. The

Is achieving a two-digit rate of women's participation in politics still a pipe dream?The local elections, which recorded an all-time low turnout of 48.4%, ushered in 2 women district council heads out of 232 (0.9% compared to 0% in 1998), 63 women municipal heads out of 682 (9.2% compared to 5.

"People say that what I'm doing is like throwing eggs at a rock. But I believe that if you throw enough eggs, we can break the rock. We started out with the conviction that if we keep crying out, we will make at least a slight difference, make right at least a small wrong. The Army wants us to t

On May 30, 4:18 p.m., the funeral of Lee Woo Jeong, who passed away from cerebral hemorrhage and cardiac infarction at the age of 79, was held in Han Shin University. In honor of the deceased's life-long dedication to society, the funeral was held in the form of a social funeral, and social acti

Paintings of nude women, long established as a symbol of pure arts, was downplayed as a mere political code during a university symposium, drawing attention to this different interpretation.During the Korea Japan Modern Art and Women Symposium held on May 31, professor Midori Wakaguwa gave a present

Activists and victims from North and South Korea, the Philippines, Indonesia, Taiwan and China, as well as Korean activists living in the US and Japan and American lawyers gathered in Pyongyang on May 3 and 4 to participate in the 'Asian Regional Conference for the Redress of Japan's War Cri

The system of pre-election contesting for party nomination - adopted by both the ruling and opposition parties in preparation for the upcoming local elections on the pretext of establishing grassroots democracy - is becoming a stumbling block to the political empowerment of women. Four candidates fo

As Korean artist Na Hye Seoks works began to receive more critical acclaim in recent years, not a few fakes have appeared on the artistic scene, giving rise to an intensifying genuine or fake debate.The debate was launched in earnest by Kyungwon University professor Yoon Bum Mo at the 5th Symposium

A considerable number of foreign visitors to Korea experience discrimination from Koreans, but the Koreans are not even fully aware of this. This calls for changes in the Korean peoples awareness. With the World Cup just around the corner, the Korean government is busy preparing to accommodate touri

The Women's News and 4th Women Film Festival Committee has been selecting recipients every year for The Women's News Award, given to deserving individuals or groups that have put feminism into practice through film. This year, the award went to director Park Ok Soon, head of the filmmaking g

On April 9, Japan's Ministry of Education and Science authorized a high school history textbook entitled (published by Myongsongsa). The textbook has no mention of the countless women who were drafted as sex slaves by the Japanese military during its imperialist expansion, once again sparking of

The Korean Peninsula has yet to break free from the threat of war, what with the theory of "a 2003 Korea Crisis" currently shaking up society. The year 2003 is the deadline for the completion of light-water reactors promised to North Korea, and also the year when North Korea will have to open up its

"It's impossible to completely wipe out prostitution anyway.""Won't licensing prostitution lead to more of it?"The debate over licensed prostitution, which had died down after the fire in Gunsan red light district, has sputtered back to life, tensing up women groups once more.It started out