Explaining Gender Gap in Political Ideology: Differential Effect of Gender, Feminism and Sexism across Generations in South Korea

Colloquium in July 2023 Ho Youn Koh (Professor, Dept. of Political Science and Int’l Relations, Nazarbayev Univ., Kazakhstan) Since the #MeToo movement and gender-related events in 2018, feminism and generational conflicts have been utilized for political mobilization, making gender and generation an important topic to understand the current politics in Read more…

Is the Gender Gap in Political Attitudes Changing? An Analysis of Authoritarian Attitudes Using Survey Data Collected from South Korea in 2021 and 2022

Colloquium in Sept. 2022 Chang, Han Il (Professor, Department of Political Science and International Relations at Kookmin Univ., South Korea) Using survey data collected in 2021 and 2022, this study analyzes gender differences in authoritarian attitudes between the young (born after 1980) and the middle-aged (born in the year between Read more…

From Solidarity to Fluidarity: The Generation Z’s Flexible Feminist Identity Formation and the Corset Free Movement in South Korea

Colloquium in Apr. 2021 Jung, Gowoon (Professor, Department of Sociology at Kyung Hee Univ.) This study analyzes how young women construct their feminist identity in relation to participation in the ‘corset-free movement’ in South Korea, based on its online in-depth interviews with 40 women students in their early 20s, mostly Read more…