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Hawon Jung
@allyjung
Digital investigation editor @AFP & Author of Flowers of Fire: The Inside Story of South Korea's Feminist Movement.
Seoul, South Korea
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    Hawon Jung
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    Apr 4
    Unlike Kim Jong Un’s powerful sister or daughter, ordinary women in North Korea rarely make international headlines. Yet through resilience & labor, they have reshaped everyday life & driven many of the country’s social shifts in recent decades. My latest:
    North Korean Women Are Driving A Capitalist Resistance
    From thepersistent.com
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    Hawon Jung
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    Sep 23, 2024
    Thousands of South Korean women gathered in Seoul last weekend to protest against deepfake porn targeting a growing number of women and girls - the first mass protest since 2018 over the widespread 'digital sex crimes' in the tech-advanced but deeply male-dominated country.
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    Hawon Jung
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    Apr 11, 2019
    It's official: South Korea will abandon its 66-year-long ban on abortion as the Constitutional Court ruled today the criminal laws banning abortion unconstitutional, saying the laws "excessively infringe upon women's rights to choose."
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    Hawon Jung
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    May 4, 2023
    What a photo. In S.Korea, a growing number of venues like cafes, casual bistros, or even public libraries ban children under the "no kids" banner, supposedly not to inconvenience other patrons. One MP criticized the "exclusionary" practice in a presser, with her toddler in tow.
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    Hawon Jung
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    Jun 9, 2018
    History in the making. More than 20,000 South Korean women angrily urged the gov't to crack down on the widespread 'molka' (spy cam) crimes that secretly film women at public toilet/public transport/office/school- in the biggest-ever protest held by women in the nation. #혜화시위
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    Hawon Jung
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    Mar 9, 2022
    While everyone in S.Korea is doom-scrolling on this pivotal election night, I think of the ordinary women/men I met in the court of reporting for my book & whose daily lives may be deeply affected by the outcome of the election, esp. in terms of gender equality (a long thread)
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    Hawon Jung
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    Apr 27, 2018
    Here's a message Kim Jong Un wrote on the guestbook at the Peace House summit venue, which reads "A new history begins now - at the starting point of history and the era of peace." #interkoreasummit
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    Hawon Jung
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    Mar 14, 2023
    S.Korea's SBS TV came under fire after airing a news segment abt Michelle Yeo's Oscar victory that had removed "ladies" from her speech, "Ladies, don’t let anybody tell you you are ever past your prime." The edit was made because her remark "doesn't apply to women only," it said.
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    연합뉴스
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    Mar 14, 2023
    SBS, 양쯔충 오스카 수상소감서 '여성' 삭제했다가 뭇매 yna.co.kr/view/AKR202303…
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    Hawon Jung
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    May 4, 2023
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    "But all of us are, or were once children...The society we want is not one that is only made for people who are quick, skillful, and experienced - but one where it's okay to be slow, clumsy, or inexperienced," Yong said (apologies for the photo dump, but the child is so cute!😅)
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    Hawon Jung
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    May 4, 2023
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    FYI, South Korea has recorded the lowest birthrates in the world for years, and the increasing prevalence of the public/private spaces enforcing the "no-kids" rule sparked a viral (and bitter) joke, "South Koreans love no-kids zones so much that the whole country has become one."
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    Hawon Jung
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    Jan 5, 2023
    One of the key reasons why South Korea has the lowest birthrates in the world, summed up in one survey: when asked by matchmaking agencies to describe the biggest obstacle to marriage, women cited men's views on domestic duty sharing. Men said feminism. m.munhwa.com/mnews/view.htm…
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    Hawon Jung
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    Nov 12, 2024
    Families of South Korean women who'd been killed by male partners urged lawmakers to pass a proposed law against intimate partner violence in a rare joint press conference today -- after at least four men had been arrested in the country in just a week for killing ex-girlfriends.
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    여성신문
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    Nov 12, 2024
    반복되는 교제살인에 유족들 울분 “가해자 더 잔인해져… 국회는 입법 추진하라” n.news.naver.com/article/310/00… 지난 일주일 사이 4명의 여성이 애인으로 추정되는 남성에게 살해됐다. 앞서 교제살인으로 가족을 잃었던 유족들이 한자리에 모여 "교제살인이 일어나는 것을 지켜보고만 있을 수 없다"며
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    Hawon Jung
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    May 4, 2023
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    "In order to boost our birthrate that is the world's lowest, we should first change our society that rejects children," @yong_hyein said. "Children are our fellow citizens who learn about the world for the first time, so they can be slow, clumsy, or inexperienced in everything."
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    Hawon Jung
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    Jun 9, 2018
    The women chanted, "Those men who film molka (spycam)! Those who upload it! Those who watch it! All should be arrested & face stern punishment! Molka (hidden in) cigarette packets! Molka in water bottles! Molka in car keys! Molka in eye glasses! Restrict molka sales! #혜화시위
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