2022 Year in Review

Korea are women — one of the
highest gender ratios in the world,
combined with low sentencing
rates for these crimes. In the last
10 years alone 41.4% of
perpetrators were given probation,
around 30% were given a fine and
only 28% of those found guilty
were actually sent to prison.
In the recent “Nth Room '' case, at
least 74 victims, including underage
girls, were blackmailed into
uploading explicit videos of
themselves on Telegram by a man
nicknamed “God God”, who then
sold the images. Moreover, Korean
women are facing a ‘feminist’
backash from Korean men who
think that this movement has
caused “reverse discrimination”
and that the #MeToo movement is
a witch hunt. In a June 2021 poll,
84% of Korean men in their
twenties, and 83% in their thirties,
said they had experienced “serious
gender-based discrimination.”
By abolishing the Gender Equality
Ministry, Yoon is putting the
women and female presenting
people of South Korea at risk.
They are now, more than ever
before, at risk of sex based crimes,
domestic abuse by a intimate
partner/family violence, a 40%
increase in suicide rates, a
significant gender pay gap, and
vicious online trolling from those
who dare to speak out against the
anti-feminism movement. While
there have been modest
improvements in women’s rights –
including the decriminalisation of
abortion in early 2021 and better
enrolment rates in higher
education - with 98% of students
completing high school, it is not
enough.
The global impacts of having men
like President Yoon in government
are already being seen in both
developing and developed
countries alike. Recently in Iran, 22-
year-old Mahsa Amini was brutally
beaten and killed by the regime's
morality police for not wearing a
hijab. This occurred just weeks
after Iran’s hardline president,
Ebrahim Raisi, ordered a
crackdown on women’s rights and
called for stricter enforcement of
the country’s mandatory dress
code,
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