Choo, Jihyun. 2019. “Law Enforcement as the Result of Gendered Organization: The Effect of ‘Women as Victims’ and Police Gender Segregation.” Gender and Culture 12(2): 75-110. The denunciation of the “biased investigation” into illegal filming has led to calls for a greater proportion of women in law enforcement organizations. However, Read more…
Joo, Ikhyun and Seongsoo Choi. 2019. “When a Man ‘Helps’ a Woman: The Importance of Time Overlap in the Division of Housework within Married Couples.” Korean Journal of Sociology 53(2):213-51. Existing research has documented that husband’s additional housework does not reduce wife’s housework and even may increase it. In this study, we Read more…
Kim, Ee Sun and Keong Suk Park. 2019. “Life Course of Korean Women: Conflictual Gender Differentiation and Enforced Classification.” ECONOMY AND SOCIETY 122: 138-170. Korean women’s aspirations and practices for gender equality have been increasingly prevalent. However, the foundation of life is growing fragmented according to economic stratification, and family Read more…
Kim, Soo-ah and Sae-Eun Kim. 2016. “‘Dys-like-phoria’: Representation and Re-characterisation of ‘Misogyny’ through Facebook.” Media, Gender & Culture 31(2): 5-44. Contemporary Korean society has witnessed the rise and prevalence of Facebook pages that set forth their core identity as ‘misogyny’. Within this societal context, this study analyses the contents and Read more…
Most Korean research on gender divisions of housework focuses on married couples. This article extends this literature to examine gender differences in housework across living arrangements and marital status, with particular focus on during transition into adulthood. This study examines the amount and composition of domestic work performed by those Read more…
This study aims to examine how to classify youth’s attitude towards Korean society and the extent to which latent classes of youth’s attitudes toward Korean society are explained by economic status measured by net worth and household income. For these purposes, this study employs latent class analysis by M-Plus and Read more…
This study attempts to calculate the decent level of income for youth through examination of the ‘living expense’ level based on the current household expenditure and consumption expenditure of the youth, utilizing the 2014 raw data of ‘Household Income and Expenditure Survey’ by Statistics Korea. Based on our analysis, we Read more…
South Korea has been long known for its high gender wage gap. According to OECD 2017 data, South Korea recorded 34.6% in terms of gender wage gap, with the US 18.2% and Japan 24.5%. To evaluate whether this gap is due to women’s career disruption or due to the prevalence Read more…
Have you heard of the “spoon class theory”, a term widely used among online communities in South Korea? It refers to the idea that individual’s success in life solely depends on being born into parents of high socioeconomic status. According to this ‘theory’, the influence of parents’ socioeconomic status on Read more…
South Korea’s fertility rate is expected to hit a record breaking 0.96 births per woman this year. This is due to various reasons including high unemployment rate and increasing cost of living, but fundamentally it is due to high costs of marriage and birth. In a country influenced by Confucianism, Read more…