Lee Eun Eui News Today

The coincidence of two online groups distributing sexually exploitative and defamatory material is spiraling into a gender conflict. As recent social controversies increasingly pivot to issues of gender equality, there are growing concerns that the simmering gender conflict may flare up once again.

Rape is often defined as forcing someone to submit to sexual intercourse against their will. A question arises in cases when consent hadnt been established explicitly between individuals involved in a sex act: is it rape?

Despite a 2019 landmark ruling by the Constitutional Court decriminalizing abortion, legal abortion in Korea remains a controversial issue with no simple answers. Without detailed laws, women seeking the termination of pregnancy are walking a fine line between legal and illegal in a country where over 3,000 “legal” surgical abortions are performed every year according to government data.

A child rapist serving a 15-year prison term for assaulting 11 girls in 2006 has been rearrested on an additional charge a day before his discharge and is expected to face another prison term as heavy as seven years, officials said Monday.