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Southeast Asia

Human rights & gender

South Korea’s Experiment With Gender Equality

WriterButoyi Ida Ornella

Date22.06.18

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After hardly winning a deeply contentious race, South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol seems to be backtracking on a campaign pledge to put an end to  the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family (MOGEF). While this is a positive development, it is not an about-face from the new conservative administration, which has manifested skepticism about the presence of persistent ands tructural discrimination against women in South Korea.