The MeToo movement has been active in South Korea since the late 2010s.
Origin The inciting incident for the MeToo movement in South Korea was when , 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.
The incident angered many Koreans, and the incident triggered the spread of the Korean version of the #MeToo movement. In the end, the commission said it would conduct an investigation into sexual violence within the prosecution.
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Culture
Go Eun
In 2017, "Hwanghae Culture" 97 and "Hwanghae Culture" were planned as feminism for specials, creative works, cultural criticism, and photo essays. When asked by poet Choi Young-mi to do so, she actually referred to poet Ko Un and wrote about the poem "Monster" that exposes sexual violence in the paragraph, sparking the MeToo movement.
On February 7, 2018, Choi Young-mi appeared in the JTBC newsroom after the controversy and said, "It was a bit exaggerated," but she was "a follow-up" to the character in the poem. On top of that, she further revealed, "When I was in my early 30s, there were dozens of people who sexually harassed and molested me at a drinking party, not just one or two."
People such as Lee Seung-chul posted messages criticizing poet Choi Young-mi in an original way, such as Choi Young-mi's costume play, sparking controversy over her "second assault."
"One day between 1993 and 1995, I will talk about the monster's sexual violence at the year-end party," poet Choi said in her Facebook post on the 17th. "There is another worst case of a monster I witnessed at a bar in Jongro around 1993, but I can't say it because I'm afraid my mouth will get dirty."
Poet Ko Un stepped down as chair professor on Saturday, saying, "I don't want to cause trouble to Dankook University because of me." 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. As of Tuesday, Dankook University dropped articles and posts related to poet Ko Un on its website.
The Seoul Metropolitan Government has decided to shut down the "Everyone's Room" to commemorate him.
Others 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.
Cinema On February 8, a rookie actress filed a claim on SNS that she had been sexually harassed by film director Cho Geun-hyun during a casting interview for a music video actor on 18 December 2017. The film production company excluded the director from its promotional activities. The victim submitted the transcript as evidence at the time of the interview.
On the 17th, local time, director Kim Ki-duk attended the Berlin International Film Festival and mentioned the assault on his actress.
On Sunday, a Twitter user disclosed sex crimes on his account, referring to the real name of a film producer and a film professor at a university.
On March 6, former employees exposed the habitual sexual assault of the secretary general of the Jeonju International Film Festival.
Lee Hyun Joo Film director A also revealed the sex crimes committed by film director Lee Hyun-joo on social media under the title of "Writing to Join Me Too Campaign." Lee Hyun-joo was indicted in 2015 on charges of committing sex crimes against a female colleague of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and was sentenced to two years in prison, suspended for three years, and 40 hours of sexual violence education by the Supreme Court last December. A reported the damage and claimed that there was an attempt to cover up the incident in the film industry.
On February 5, the Women's Film Council held a board meeting and stripped Lee of the director award he gave at the Women's Film Awards at the end of last year. 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." The Korean Film Directors' Association also expelled Lee Hyun-joo on February 6.
Cho Min Ki
At dawn on February 20, an article titled 'I'm suing you' was posted at the DC Inside Theater and Musical Gallery. "A professor of theater at a university in Cheongju sexually harassed female students for years," the anonymous post-writer said. This post is currently deleted.
In October 2017, the victim reported Cho Min-ki's sexual harassment to the Kookmin Ilbo. Cheongju University, which received a complaint from the Ministry of Education, held a gender equality committee to investigate the case. 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. The school said, "The investigation confirmed it to be true. We demanded stern disciplinary action because it constitutes sexual harassment under regulations and the victim wanted to be punished strongly," he said. Cheongju University issued a three-month suspension and Cho Min-ki submitted his resignation.
Cho Min-ki's side flatly denied the allegation. Cho Min-ki also appeared on JTBC's newsroom and denied the allegations. The agency, Will Entertainment, made an official statement on the 20th, saying, "The content of sexual molestation is a clear rumor and the severe punishment for sexual harassment is also not true."
Meanwhile, new actor Song Ha-neul testified specifically to Cho Min-ki's sexual harassment on SNS. He stressed that it was not a "rumor circulating without victims" mentioned by Cho Min-ki or a "fabricated affair by conspiracy of unspecified forces."
On March 9, Cho Min-ki was finally found dead at his home. Circumstances suggest suicide. In the end, the North Chungcheong Provincial Police Agency ended its investigation with no right to indict.
Cho Jae Hyun On February 23, 2018, actor Choi Yul pointed to Cho Jae-hyun as an actor who caused a controversy over sexual harassment. On the 24th, Cho apologized for his wrongdoing through a statement and dropped out of tvN's drama Cross. But not long after the apology was issued, another victim's disclosure came out.
Kim Young Bin 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. It was sent to the prosecution on April 3, 2018.
Cho Hyun Hoon On April 27, 2018, news of the sexual harassment of a female director at the 2013 film festival came out, and he apologized to the victim and said he would stop his activities.
Theater 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."
An anonymous publisher, who introduced himself as a friend of a musician working for a large musical orchestra team, posted a revelation about renowned music director Byun Hee-seok on a bulletin board on a well-known Internet site. Regarding Byun Hee-seok, the publisher said, "Even actors, musicians, and staff in the performing world don't want to work together. I'm writing down some examples of how dirty words he says, how hard-to-mouth lewd he is, and how many of the team members he had to listen to every performance he spits out," he said. When the article was posted, some people who knew Byun Hee-seok also agreed.
On February 19, an online community bulletin board posted an article saying that Byun Hee-seok, who directed music in large musicals "Titanic" and "Cyrano," made sexual harassment remarks to female members. On the same day, musical director Byun Hee-seok posted an apology on social media for his alleged sexual harassment.
On the 18th, actor H (35) also posted on Facebook, "I drank a lot in the back seat of the theater for the first time in Daehak-ro, and when I woke up, a senior was licking my ears in a motel room," adding, "He left the motel room for the last time to confess that he liked me, and then I walked the door and fell asleep.""He revealed a senior actor.
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. The Gyeongnam Theater Association announced on the 19th that it will permanently expel the head of the Gimhae troupe, "Bunjaki," which is a criminal in question. Then on Tuesday, another woman who borrowed the woman's name claimed that she had been sexually assaulted by A while living as a member of the same troupe. The Gyeongnam Provincial Police Agency's Women's and Youth Investigation Unit launched an investigation on women who revealed that they had been sexually assaulted by a representative of a theater company in Gimhae in the past. Two victims were identified by the police until Friday.
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. Among them, allegations were raised that actor Oh, who was a member of the Yeonhui troupe's street gang in the 1990s, sexually harassed female juniors. Starting this morning, some media outlets have named Oh Dal-soo by his real name.
Lee Yoon Taek A figure who has accelerated the revelation of sexual harassment in the cultural community.
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 weekend, Kim Bo-ri (a pseudonym), who introduced herself as a former theatrical figure on Facebook, said that things like "washing naked with a wet towel," "similar sex when moving cars," and "gender and massage around them" that others exposed were things that she had experienced in the past.Another victim, who was a minor at the time of the original document archives, is said to have suffered similar incidents.
Eventually, Lee Yun-taek stopped working. Oh Kyu-seok, the governor of Gijang-gun, is also said to be in danger of a firestorm. He was expelled from the Korean Drama Association on the evening of the 17th and from the Seoul Theater Association on the 18th. We'd like to know what it is. There have been a series of requests on the bulletin board to cover the incident. On the same day, the Korean Drama Producers Association also decided to expel him. In addition, the Yeonhui Dangeori Troupe was disbanded on the 19th.