[1][2] Along with the younger Korean Women's Associations United (KWAU), KNCW helps coordinate non-governmental organization activities dealing with women's issues and feminism throughout Korea.
[3] The Korean Women's movement had been interrupted during the Japanese Occupation of 1910-1945, and emerged again in the late 1940s after the War.
[4] Its purpose was to improve women's rights and status, specifically to reform the revise the discriminating Family Law of 1957 as a united force.
[5] The KNCW campaigned and petitioned the government for a revision of the Family in 1962 and 1975.
It remained one of the major women's organizations in South Korea until the 1980s, when it lost its dominating position.