Just an amusing coincidence for your Friday night. But don’t worry, Korean Feminism geeks—I’ve also got you covered! Estimated reading time: 2 minutes. Image source: Aladin.

No, not that F-word—although these days, it’s just as taboo to say either. And no, I don’t quite know how Easy to Read Feminism: Who Says Feminism is Difficult (Background information for beginners to feminism) / 쉽게 읽는 페미니즘: 페미니즘 누가 어렵대 (패미니즘 입문자를 위한 배경지식서), by the BT Humanities Research Institute / 비티인문학 연구소 (2019), ended up on my phone screen exactly. Probably, watching Blue is the Warmest Colour (2013) the week before subliminally affected me somehow. But, however it got there, I couldn’t help but notice the age and sex breakdown of customers who had already bought the book, which seemed to mirror the gender gap underlying the interest—or antipathy towards—feminism among the wider Korean public.

Source: @HeejungChung

I too lament that gender gap, but also found the image amusing, so am sharing it for that reason.

I don’t really mean to imply anything more meaningful in it beyond that! Indeed, just a quick perusal of other Korean books on feminism I’ve recently bought, showed that that same buying pattern didn’t apply to those.

If that leaves you dissatisfied though, let me also take this opportunity to link to what I somehow found next: “A new variation of modern prejudice: young Korean men’s anti-feminism and male-victim ideology” by Han Wool Jung, in Volume 14-2023 of Frontiers in Psychology. Probably the most comprehensive, crucially open-access article I’ve ever encountered on the subject, it should keep you—and me!—occupied for several hours at least.

Enjoy!

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