MeToo movement in South Korea
The inciting incident for the MeToo movement in South Korea was when Seo Ji-hyun [ko], an incumbent prosecutor in South Korea (the 33rd class of the Judicial Research and Training Institute), posted a message on the e-pros bulletin board of the prosecution's internal network on January 29, 2018, and later appeared on JTBC's newsroom, confessing to sexual harassment for the first time through interviews.
In addition, poet Ko Un reportedly expressed his position to leave the residential creative space at the foot of Gwanggyosan Mountain provided by Suwon City.
[8] A woman who identified herself as a victim of sexual violence in the paragraph issued a statement in front of the Mapo Central Library in Mapo-gu, Seoul, where the general meeting of the Korean Writers' Association will be held, urging the Korean Writers' Association, which includes a large number of sexual offenders in the paragraph, to prepare countermeasures.
[9] On February 8, a rookie actress filed a claim on SNS that she had been sexually harassed by film director Cho Geun-hyun [1] during a casting interview for a music video actor on December 18 last year.
[10][11][12] On the 17th, local time, director Kim Ki-duk attended the Berlin International Film Festival and mentioned the assault on his actress.
The Women's Film Council said, "We only learned about Lee Hyun-joo's case through a tip-off on February 2 and called the board of directors," adding, "We decided to cancel the award because it clearly violated the purpose of the establishment."
Cheongju University held a meeting of its board of directors in December and a disciplinary review of Cho Min-ki, a former theater professor, was approved.
[25] In October 2013, the former programmer A was forcibly molested at the office of the organizing committee of the Bucheon International Film Festival, and five years later, on March 21, 2018, he was exposed and charged with the MeToo movement.
[26] On February 11, theater actor Lee Myung-haeng issued an apology on his agency's official Facebook page over a controversy over past sexual harassment and dropped out of the play "The Kiss of a Spider Woman."
Director Hwang Yi-sun wrote, "The theater master, who runs a troupe of professors from Seoul National University of Arts, raised his hand on his thigh in 2003 to cover his knee blanket in a car on his way from school to Namsan, and gradually approached the important part."
[31] On the anonymous bulletin board of Seoul National University of Arts, he confessed that he joined a theater troupe in Gimhae at the age of 16 more than a decade ago and was sexually assaulted in a van by A.
[33] Since allegations of sexual assault by director Lee Yoon-taek were raised on February 15, various accusations have been filed online against the street gang of Yeonhui troupe.
On February 14, playwright and director Lee Yoon-taek revealed the past sexual harassment committed by Kim Soo-hee, head of the theater company.
In an article posted on his Facebook page with a hashtag called "MeToo," CEO Kim revealed the sexual harassment damage he suffered during a local performance more than a decade ago.
CEO Kim said at the time that Lee Yoon-taek gave a female member a massage during practice or during breaks, calling her into the inn on the day of the incident.
On the 19th, Lee Yoon-taek held a press conference on sexual harassment at 30 Studio in Myeongryun-dong, Jongno-gu, Seoul, and said, "I sincerely apologize to the victims.
On the 21st, Oh Dong-sik posted on his Facebook page, "I accuse my teacher," revealing in detail the process of preparing for the press conference from the 12th to the 19th when the Me Too movement against Lee Yoon-taek began.
[46] According to a report by SBS's "8 News" on February 26, 2018, Park Jae-dong [ko] sexually harassed and molested a writer Lee who came to ask for a wedding officiant.
[47] Since then, the author has announced the damage through the Korea Cartoonist Association's casebook of fair labor and sexual violence in 2016, in which he participated as an illustrator.
According to Ahn Hee-jung's official Facebook apology, "The secretary's position that the relationship was consensual is wrong," admitting that Kim Ji-eun's claim was correct, and declaring that she would not only quit her post as governor but also stop all political activities.
On January 30, Democratic Party lawmaker Lee Jae-joung revealed on SNS that he had been sexually harassed by the head of a law firm, a former prosecutor, when he was preparing to get a job as a lawyer in 2005.
"[68] On Jan. 31, Lee Hyo-kyung, a member of the Gyeonggi Provincial Council of the Democratic Party of Korea, also revealed sexual harassment on her Facebook page.
"[69] Choi Yoon-hee, a former lawmaker of the Grand National Party and North Gyeongsang Province, also confessed the sexual harassment damage on Facebook.
On the bus returning to the hotel at around 8 p.m. after dinner, a drunken fellow district councilor pushed Chung toward the window and attempted physical contact.
[72] At dawn on February 15, Kim Min-kyung (Sophia), a Catholic believer, sent to the KBS special reporting team the fact that she was nearly sexually assaulted several times by a priest in South Sudan during her missionary work in South Sudan in 2011 with Father Han Man-sam of the Catholic Diocese of Suwon and the Priests of Justice, and was revealed on the 23rd.
[73] The Suwon Diocese suspended priest Han Man-sam's execution of the church, and Archbishop Kim Hee-joong, the chairman of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of Korea, made a public apology.
[74] In the early 2000s, it was revealed that Father John, a baptist of the Daejeon Diocese who served as a teacher at the Catholic Mission School, sexually harassed a minor student.
In a swift response after a quick fact-finding mission, the Daejon Diocese responded with a formal apology through Bishop Yu Heung-sik Lazaro.
[76] A woman in her 50s, who was a member of the Suwon S Church in Gyeonggi Province, revealed in a telephone interview with the Hankook Ilbo that she had been sexually assaulted by a 74-year-old pastor about 10 years ago.
Oh called in the victim, B, and asked her to elaborate on the damage, and when B confessed, she urged B to cover up the incident, such as "people can make mistakes in their lives," and continued to stress to other students who found out about the fact, "We did it because we liked each other."
