The actor has spent several decades playing nonconformist characters. She has challenged social norms in her career and real-life by playing the roles of a vicious heiress to an ageing prostitute.
Byun Hui-su, South Korea’s first transgender soldier found dead: South Korea’s first transgender soldier was found dead in her home on Wednesday. Byun Hui-su underwent gender-reassignment surgery in 2019, after which she was discharged last year from the South Korean Military. According to local authorities, primary findings suggest that Hui-su had been dead for days […]
South Korean Singer Kim Se Jeong: Official social media accounts have been opened on YouTube, Weibo, Twitter, Instagram, and V LIVE by the singer.
Song Yoo-jung’s death was confirmed by Sublime Artist Agency.
Comfort women is an euphemism for the women and girls forced into sexual slavery by the Imperial Japanese Army in occupied countries and territories before and during World War II.
The South Korean authorities also legalised the termination of pregnancy at 24-week term because of medical conditions and the use of the drug mifepristone for performing abortions.
South Korea’s double Olympic short track gold medallist Shim Suk-hee has accused her former coach of sexual assault, her lawyer said on Wednesday. Shim filed a police complaint against Cho Jae-beom last month when he was jailed for repeatedly beating her over many years. The 21-year-old is an elite athlete who has four Olympic medals in […]
South Korean women are destroying their makeup to rebel against the country’s stringent and unrealistic beauty standards. Escape the Corset is a fight against the unrealistic beauty standards that call for women to look perfect all the time. It symbolises destroying makeup that keeps women constrained. “Corset” here is a reference to the daily women’s garments which worked […]
On 14th August, South Korea commemorated its very first ‘Memorial Day for Japanese Forces’ Comfort Women Victims’. It dedicated the ceremony to tens of thousands of Asian women, who were forced to work in Japanese military brothels during World War II. The Imperial Japanese Army kidnapped around 200,000 girls and young women from South Korea, […]
A South Korean woman has been awarded a rare jail term for secretly photographing a male nude model. The incident has sparked claims of sexism and double standards as the country is dealing with the epidemic of spycam pornography. The Seoul western district court sentenced the woman to 10 months in prison. Apart from the […]
