In South Korea, gender inequality is increasing with high rates of physical and digital crimes against women, largely driven by young, educated men blaming women and feminism for societal issues. Despite recent advancements in women's reproductive rights, legal protections remain inadequate, highlighting the urgent need for the state to rectify the voids in current laws to protect women's rights and punish perpetrators.

During the 2022 South Korean presidential race, conservative candidate Yoon Suk-yeol denied that structural inequality between men and women exists and threatened to abolish the Ministry of Family and Gender Equality. He narrowly won the presidency in March 2022 by catering to young men, who overwhelmingly believe that discrimination against men in South Korea is severe.

Yet Korea ranks low in global indexes of gender equality, such as the World Economic Forum Global Gender Gap Report. Incidents of violence against women, including domestic assault, workplace sexual harassment, rape and murder have become alarmingly frequent. In a 2015 study by the South Korean government, 80 per cent of respondents — the vast majority of whom were women — reported they had been sexually harassed in their workplace. Human Rights Watch reported that nearly 80 per cent of male respondents admitted to violent acts against an intimate partner in a 2017 survey.

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Extremely misogynistic. Their equivalent to gamergate will throw an absolute shitfit over piching like this 🤏 , which they take as a personal insult on their tiny dicks.

Moon Channel has a nice 2 part video on the Korean gender war: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Im4YAMWK74 and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=woB0eecbf6A

The tldw is: many centuries ago, during a crisis, Korea went turbo-confucianism, which reinforced all the existing hierarchies of their society and that lives on to this day. Everyone should know their place and act accordingly to keep harmony. Women having any sort of right besides being an obedient wife is breaking said hierarchy and thus destroying social harmony.

Misogynist to the point it would be funny if it weren't true. Like this conspiracy theory which blew up internationally when some Korean incels hired an airship to demand the firing of a female artist in a Chinese video game company for accidentally using the finger pinch symbol in the design of a French-inspired character. (I can't find the news articles now. Here's some reporting from confused Russian gamers that gets the main facts right. Anyway the company told them to pound sand, but similar witch-hunts did work in Korea in a few cases.)

pretty much similar to japan, women are expected to take care of children and not have careers, and are often have limited income mobility.