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See here, here, and here for the organizers’ Facebook event page, Facebook group, and blog respectively. Alas, there isn’t any information available in English, but R0boseyo’s excellent write-up of last year’s event gives you a good idea of what to expect.
Update: The “Slut Walk Korea Declaration 2012″ has an English translation.
Body Image/Health:
— Do I look fat in this country? A look at beauty ideals in Korean culture (Chatelaine)
— “Rougan”: How My Husband Helped Me Love My Curves (Speaking of China)
— Big Boobs in Korea (Eat Your Kimchi)
— Continued Criticism of Miss Korea Pageant (Korea Human Rights News; scroll down for translation)
— London 2012 Olympics: let’s celebrate sportswomen’s bodies (The Guardian)
— Comic Book Industry Rejects Human-looking Female Characters (Escher Girls)
— Blog Shoutout: Women’s Comic Book Poses in Real Life (Maxi and April)
— Snoop Dogg vs. SONEs: The Tweet Heard ‘Round the K-popiverse (Seoulbeats)
— North Korea Experts Can See a Lot in a Hemline (The New York Times; Asia Times)
Censorship:
— Rolling Changes in K-pop (Seoulbeats)
— China arrests 31 in U.S.-hosted porn website crackdown (People’s Daily Online)
— Bill to ban alcohol ads by young celebrities (The Korea Times, EUCAM; see The Wall Street Journal also)
Crime:
— Girl Posts Picture of Alleged ‘Molesting’ Man on Bus (Korea Bang)
— Teen rape exposes dark side of the Korean Web (Korea Joongang Daily)
— Anti-Trafficking NGO to Set Up Shop in Korea (The Chosun Ilbo)
— “Looking for Pretty Women: Minimum 1 Million Won per Day” (Human Rights Monitor)
— Foreign Ministry engulfed in sexual harassment case (The Korea Times)
Dating/Relationships/Marriage:
— Getting Your Marriage Certificate in China (My Beijing Survival Diary)
— Dating in Korea (Rok On!)
— Ask the Yangxifu: My Boyfriend Doesn’t Understand My Past Child Abuse (Speaking of China)
“The Reality and Twisted Values of Some White Men” Series at Gusts of Popular Feeling:
— Part 8: After the ‘hidden camera sex’ report… victim hurt again through ‘comment terror’
— Who’s Hunting Who? (The Korea Times, The Marmot’s Hole)
— Newspaper Reveals the ‘Truth’ About Foreigners in Korea (Korea Bang)
LGBT/Sexuality:
— LGBT Groups Oppose Reappointment of NHRCK Byung-chul Hyun (Human Rights Monitor)
— Xiyadie depicts homosexual love in Chinese paper-cuts (Los Angeles Times)
— Dance, Mingle, Be Gay (Matt Lemon Photography)
Misc:
— Tokyo’s new Robot Girls Restaurant will bring out your inner cyber-fetishist (io9)
— London 2012: Japan, Australia and organisers face sexism claims (The Guardian)
— China 2050: Caucasians to Become China’s Migrant Workers in the Future? (Chinasmack; Ministry of Tofu)
— Koreans are Individualistic (in Stressful Environments) (Via Korea)
— Is it okay to bar the visually impaired from bath houses? (Ilda)
Politics/Economics/Workplaces:
— How to avoid false accusations of sexual harassment (I’m No Picasso)
— Dreaming of a future where people finish work at 5pm (The Wall Street Journal)
— Solbi shares that she was in a sexual harassment prevention video (Allkpop)
— Problems with Korea’s labor law (this time from an employee perspective) (Korea Law Today)
— Best Places to Work in Korea (Human Rights Monitor)
— Park Geun-hye pledges after-school childcare for working couples (The Korea Times)
— Are Koreans ready for woman president? (The Korea Times)
— Lighting the way to female leadership (The Korea Times)
Pop Culture:
— How To Be The Asian Female TV/Movie Sidekick (8asians)
— Gender and Race: The Relationship Between Same-Sex Couples and Interracial Depictions in US Television (Overthinking)
— Being branded as a K-pop fan (Angry K-pop Fan)
— New drama series “Answer to 1997” to tackle obsessive fans (My First Love Story)
— Why all the English phrases in K-pop? (Angry K-pop Fan)
— Variety Screen Time: An Idol’s Ongoing Battle (Seoulbeats)
— ‘You only like Korean idols because they’re good looking’: the role of visuals in K-pop (Angry K-pop Fan; Part 2)
Pregnancy/Abortion/Childbirth/Demographics/Parenting/Education/Multiculturalism:
— National economy threatened by shrinking population (The Hankyoreh)
— After corporal punishment debate, Korean students still being hit (Asian Correspondent)
— Refugee Rights Movement Finally Takes Root in Korea (Human Rights Monitor)
— Mandatory HIV Testing Policy Challenged at the International Level – Korea charged with violating racial discrimination treaty (Gusts of Popular Feeling, Voice of America)
— Op-Ed: A Need to Better Understand Youth Suicide Issues in Korea (Human Rights Monitor)
— Life about to get enough tougher for migrant workers (The Hankyoreh)
(Links are not necessarily endorsements)
Filed under: Announcements, Korean Gender Reader Tagged: 잡년행진, SlutWalk, Slutwalk Korea, SlutWalkKorea
