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Busan Slutwalk, Sat Aug 31, 6-7PM, hosted by Don’t Do That
Update: I’ve just been informed that Slutwalk Korea and Don’t Do That are very different organizations, and that the latter — the organizers of Saturday’s event — advocate wearing more conservative...
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‘Room Cafes’ for Amorous Korean Teens: Dens of depravity or a necessary evil?
(Source) “As in most places, Japanese junior high schools have a naughty-boy contingent fond of teasing girls and sexual braggadocio….Such boys grow up to be sukebe (lechers) and girls are not supposed...
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“This is why Korea needs people like Velvet Geena and the RockTigers”
Click on the image to find the reasons, in an Paste Magazine article by Rachel Baily I was interviewed for this summer (and promptly forgot about — sorry!). Make sure to check out Busan Haps for a 2011...
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The Sexiest Lee Hyori Dance Cover Ever…
(Source: Unknown) Introducing the Heterosexual-Homosexual Rating Scale for the first time, Kinsey once wrote: “Males do not represent two discrete populations, heterosexual and homosexual. The world is...
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Miss A (Still) Don’t Need a Man…And Neither Did Destiny’s Child
(Source) Has it been a year already? Sorry for the slow posting everyone — I’ve had a bad cold for over two weeks. But, serendipitously, it’s a great time to be thinking about Miss A again, their...
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Following School Crackdown, More Kids Punished for Acts of Affection
(Source; edited) From Korea Realtime: As Min-gun and Sae-young left their Seoul high school one fall afternoon, they strolled down a tree-lined street more than an arm’s length apart from each other....
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A Queer Week in Seoul!
(Sources: left, right) Sorry for the late notice, but this week features the both the 11th Annual Queer (Lesbian) Culture Festival and the 2nd Gay Short Film Festival, both in Seoul (I’m unsure if...
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Reader Request: Korean-Western Relationships and Gaining Acceptance from the...
(Sources, edited: left, middle, right) The following was originally posted as a short comment to Korean Sociological Image #78: Multicultural Families in Korean Textbooks; for the sake of giving it...
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Reader Request: Looking for people to share stories about relationships in Korea
I’ve been asked to pass on the following: Looking for people to share stories about relationships in Korea *********Have you fallen in love in South Korea? Battled cultural differences and other...
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Radio Interview on Australian Immigration Tonight, 7pm
(Source) Tonight I’ll be on Busan e-FM’s Let’s Talk Busan again, this time talking about Australian immigration, working holidays, and multiculturalism, prompted by the recent, possibly...
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Upcoming Events: 7th Korea-America Student Conference, Fundraising for Seoul...
(Source) First up, for Korean speakers, this Friday there is an information session at Pusan National University about next July’s Korea-America Student Conference (sorry that I was too late to...
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Consent Workshop in Seoul, Sunday 15 December
I’ve been asked to pass on the following. Please click on the images for larger posters (PDFs), or here to go directly to Disruptive Voices’ event page on Facebook: Filed under: Korean Sexuality, Rape,...
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Girl’s Day and the New Lolitocracy: Part 1
(L-R: Jihae, Sojin, Yura, Haeri, Minah. Source) Humbert called Lolita ”the ideal consumer, the subject and object of every foul poster.” Damon Trent sounded the same theme while writing about ”the new...
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Girl’s Day and the New Lolitocracy: Part 2
(Source) Frankly, all too many things come to mind when I see this picture of Girl’s Day from late-2010…but “Lolitas” isn’t one of them. Even if Haeri, second from left, did happen to be 16 at the...
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Girl’s Day and the New Lolitocracy: Part 3
(Source, edited) Here’s the final part of this blogger’s post, which follows directly from where Part 2 left off (see here for Part 1). It’s a very good introduction to the origins of the Lolita trend...
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Korean Sociological Image #83: Vintage Contraceptive Pill Commercials
Spending the weekend looking for 8 year-old contraceptive pill commercials, as one does, I ended up finding some adorable 38 year-old ones instead: Take the title dates with a grain of salt: this brief...
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Hollaback! Korea: A Determined Group Works to Fight Sexual Harassment
Click on the image to learn more, in my very first interview piece for Busan Haps. If this is all you have time to read for now though, please note that they’re also having a discussion session on...
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Korean Sociological Image #84: What is the REAL reason for the backlash...
(Source: Unknown) Whenever one group suddenly starts competing with another for jobs, there’s going to be a backlash. That’s just human nature. Especially if one group has any real or perceived...
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Korean Sex Ed Takes to the Road
(Source) Korean sex education gets a bad rep on my blog, and deservedly so. But there are many professional and committed sex educators out there (I’ve met some!), and the quality and quantity of...
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Do “Sexy Concepts” Actually Work?
(Source) What? There’s been a spate of sexy concepts by girl-groups recently? Really? Yawn. It’s been three years since I first noted that the financial imperatives of the K-pop industry meant that...
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