Saturday, May 23, 2015

Sociology-Lee Seung Won(이승원)


Some of the issues that modern Korean social movements are concerned about

 

 Recently the chairman of the board of the University Jungang got into controversy because of his sex discrimination comment. Talking about the entrance paragon of the school, he said Jungang University should pick more male students who can give contribution to the school foundation after graduation, instead of “powder puffing girls”. After this comment was known to people, many social movements related to woman rights opposed about this comment; for example the “Korean National Council of Women”, Korea Sexual Violence Relief Center”, etc. They did a performance named “The angry Puffing” in front of Jungang University.

 Secondly, People who are concerned about the corruption related to “Sewol ship disaster” made a movement at GwangHwaMon. The protesters are moving because of the complaint they are having to the government about the disaster. They don’t like the way the government handled about the problems related to the disaster. For example, the ship that was sink in the ocean was not refloated from the water. Not for only this, people from the movement wanted to know why the disaster happened. At first the movement was supposed to be a non-violent movement, but it ended up with a lot of violence involved to it.

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