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Jean Mackenzie
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Seoul Correspondent @BBCNews covering the Korean Peninsula 🇰🇷 🇰🇵. IG 📷: @jeanrosamackenzie
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    Jean Mackenzie
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    Jan 7, 2025
    “If you want to say you’re a feminist in South Korea you have to be very brave or insane” We’ve been investigating how feminists are being hunted down online, sacked and attacked. Listen to our documentary South Korea: The Feminist Hunters on @BBCSounds
    The Documentary Podcast - Assignment: South Korea - the feminist hunters - BBC Sounds
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    Jean Mackenzie
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    Nov 3, 2020
    Poland has delayed its ban on abortions. The government was supposed to publish the new law yesterday but held off to discuss further. It’s been spooked by the huge backlash - massive numbers protesting for 2 weeks straight #polandabortion The power of protest 👇
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    Jakub Krupa
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    Oct 31, 2020
    Stunning picture of Warsaw as estimated 100,000 protested for women's rights. (ht @BDStanley)
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    Jean Mackenzie
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    Nov 1, 2022
    The first call was made to police in South Korea at 6.34pm - 4 hours before the deadly crush. It is chilling. The caller warns people could be crushed to death. “People are coming into the alley but can’t get out. I barely escaped. It seems people could be crushed to death”
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    Jean Mackenzie
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    Feb 28, 2024
    Why are South Koreans not having babies? It has the lowest birth rate in the world and keeps plummeting. Today it hit 0.72. I’ve travelled the country talking to women about this life-changing decision. This is what they told me 👇
    South Korean women increasingly don;t want to have babies
    Why South Korean women aren't having babies
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    Jean Mackenzie
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    Oct 15, 2019
    Just watched rows of police run up the main parade in Barcelona shooting rubber bullets into crowds of people at a candle vigil for the Catalan prisoners. Turned the situation into a scary and violent one instantly. Now thousands running from the police in every direction.
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    Jean Mackenzie
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    Aug 28, 2024
    South Korea facing deepfake porn 'emergency' Over the past week a large number of Telegram chat groups have been discovered - where members were creating and sharing sexually explicit "deepfake" images of women they knew – including of underage girls.
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    South Korea faces deepfake porn 'emergency'
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    Jean Mackenzie
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    Sep 3, 2024
    NEW: "The most horrific thing was a deepfake group for underage pupils that had more than 2,000 members" We delve into the deepfake pornography crisis that has engulfed hundreds of South Korean schools.
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    South Korea: The deepfake crisis engulfing hundreds of schools
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    Jean Mackenzie
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    Sep 16, 2022
    There is a sign outside the station toilet in Seoul where the woman was murdered which reads: “Women Friendly Seoul”
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    Jean Mackenzie
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    Oct 15, 2019
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    We were filming shots of crowds, and seconds later are having to take shelter in shop doorways as police fire indiscriminately in all directions
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    Jean Mackenzie
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    Nov 1, 2022
    The head of South Korea's police says they received numerous phone calls warning of danger before Saturday's crush took place, which they failed to process properly. He admits their response was inadequate.
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    Jean Mackenzie
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    Feb 28, 2024
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    Yejin, a 30-year-old TV producer, has decided not to get married and have children. "It's hard to find a dateable man in Korea - one who will share the chores and the childcare equally" she says. “And women who have babies alone are not judged kindly."
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    Jean Mackenzie
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    Nov 1, 2022
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    They then tell police what to do: "No one is controlling the alley right now. The police has to stand and control this. You should let people out first and then let people come in. People are keeping pouring in while they can’t get out"
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    Jean Mackenzie
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    Feb 28, 2024
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    Instead, Yejin wants to focus on her career, and says the long hours don't leave her time to have a family. "In Korea you're stuck in a perpetual cycle of work." "Sometimes at the weekends I go and get an IV drip, just to get enough energy to go back to work on Monday”.
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    Jean Mackenzie
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    Feb 25, 2021
    This is Belgium’s largest vaccination centre - it’s open but empty. They have the capacity to vaccinate 5000 people a day - but when we visited this week they’d done 200. We saw 2 people turn up for appointments in the time we were there.