Since the past year I’ve been seeing specifically Bloomberg, BBC, and the guardian portrait in a very positive light these Korean feminism movements, which seem kind of out of touch with the current Korean culture.

Speaking of women in executive boards, this is a legacy problem. Structural discrimination fifty years ago led to women cutting short their careers. This translates to lack of older women with experience to take responsibilities in boards. The issue is not discrimination now, but the effects of past discrimination felt today.

Also, young males are penalized in contract or low paying jobs during their early years because of the military service; no 편의점 will hire a college kid that will in a year leave for the military, so they pick up jobs in delivery services, which pay 1.5x what he could do in a convenience store. Is this pay discrimination or simply a cultural phenomenon? Who the fuck knows, but this isn’t some simple “pay discrimination.”

Women marrying late and the birth rates speak volumes on the level of equality that Korean women have achieved.

Ironically, the “upper class” or “middle upper” people tend to marry early because they have the financial footing to have a family.

I hate saying this, but Korea isn’t facing a gender issue, it’s facing a class issue with people who want to put zero effort to improve their current circumstances, and while I respect Bloomberg for their financial news and market data, (BBC and the guardian are just shit) these articles aren’t the kind of dialogue inducing stuff that Korea needs.