South Korea has seen the burgeoning skeptics of progressive politics fuming by the ex-President Moon’s failure. He failed to deliver key domestic issues like affordable housing which marked a dramatic populist shift. Where young men have been blaming the women’s as the new out-group responsible for these issues.
This has turned into an anti-feminist movement which will become a rightward turn among young voters and represents a catastrophic blow to an already enraged fight of gender equality.
The young men are enraged because the promises made political were not achieved by them and they have to face skyrocketing housing prices, and alarming wage stagnation, young people demand political change.
March 9, 2022, Yoon Suk-Yeol of the People Power Party won South Korea’s most competitive Presidential race yet, since the nation’s first free election in 1987. Yoon Suk-Yeol’s campaign platform relied heavily on the exploitation of an anxious youth male demographic, blaming women for societal issues like a low birth rate, slow economic growth, and the collapse of meritocracy.
Yoon drew in South Korean men in their 20s who had found it increasingly difficult to find sustainable employment and affordable housing. Young men in South Korea have painted themselves as the victims of the vicious cycle of “reverse sexism”. As per the young, conservative anti-feminists, women have disrupted the meritocratic system by energizing feminist movements like #Me-too and receiving societal privileges through women’s universities and gender-based job quotas.
But the reality is different, women in South Korea has faced the most dramatic gender pay gap in relations to any other OECD nations and has suffer the highest female homicide rates in the world. Women’s in South Korea has been into the never ending cycle of trauma and hopelessness through sexual violence and ineffective law enforcers, and face unattainable beauty standards, even after winning three Olympic gold medals.
Still men’s in South Korea sees women as a great threat to the economic mobility and societal welfare than the richest and most corrupt of Korea’s elite.
The study done by the research group Embrain Public has found that almost 30% of the office workers endured workplace harassment. Analysis by Workplace Gapjil 119, an organization to support victims of office abuse, workplace sexual harassment cases led to punishment only 7.6% of the time with over 60% of cases abandoned from January 2021 to January 2022, due to legal loopholes where executives are exempt “official employer” regulations towards subordinates in much lower positions.
For President Yoon and South Korea’s political establishment, responding to the increasingly polarized gender divide will prove to be a highly salient social and political dilemma. South Korea’s violent gender polarization reminds us that the true plague lies in populism and the weaponization of national crises against marginalized groups.
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