Feminism In Korean Society

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Feminism is the theory that eliminates women’s lower command in society and prejudice. It does not mean that women should have better treatment than men but it means that women should treated as same as men in the society and seek the equal rights for both sexes. In one sentence, feminism is the idea that removes when women get produce before they do something in the society because the reason of they are women. This theory made because in many countries there were lots of issues that made from that discrimination between women and men and it always become interested topic in Korean society. There are many current issues happened in Korean Society such as Korean military services, Korean ministry of gender equality and family department(MOGEF), …show more content…

In Korea, there is a law of conscription, also known as mandatory military service which means that all the men have to go army for twenty months between ages of eighteen to thirty five. However, Korean society argues that it can cause the idea of feminism. Fact, better most of women have weaker strength then men in the theory of somatology though not all the women are weak and all the men are strong. People argue that this law depreciates women which Korean government should make the solution for it. Compare to Netherland, they give draft notice both to men and women. The Netherland ministry of defense said that “women and men now have about equal education and training levels and equal treatment outweighs balancing disadvantages.”(Netherlands ' military conscription to also include women from 2018.) This quote shows that nowadays men and women both have equal education and training level since they are young which means that by apply same regulation to both men and women it can also eliminate discriminating sexes and women also can get same right from the society. Moreover, Netherland shows that if there is something to change in society, change the government law first which can help to change people’s mind or thoughts. Nevertheless, people know that South Korea and Netherland are in different situation. Netherland has army to protect their nation from other countries or show their power for diplomacy. In the other hand, South Korea …show more content…

Korean ministry of gender equality and family department is a Korean organization of states that made in February 25th 1988. (The history of Ministry of Gender Equality and Family.) The MOGEF has many purpose but one of the main aim is “Planning and coordination of women’s policy, and improvement of women’s status through the enhancement of women’s rights” ("The purpose of Ministry of Gender Equality and Family."). However, this department been issued in Korean society for several years is because they do not have any actual result for improve women’s policy. For example, they claim that the term of Korean mandatory military service should be change to five years not twenty months, suspend the selling one of famous snack called “Jyoripong”, they spend 70 billion won to educate unemployed women and others. These been issue because for the military service, many Korean men do not want to go military, some people say that they rather have knee cartilage surgery if they can (people who have experience of knee cartilage surgery, they do not go military because they cannot get physically hard training in the army) then go military service. Military service that that much tough and hard job to men but they have to go because of law. However, the MOGEF claim that government should extend the service period to five years to protect nation. It is been issue because even South Korea is on ceasefire, they do not have war

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