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A South Korean court docket for the primary time explicitly acknowledged misogyny as a motive for hate crime amid a rising “anti-feminist” motion within the East Asian nation.
The Changwon District Courtroom on Tuesday upheld a decrease court docket’s sentencing of a person to a few years in jail for aggravated assault, destruction of property, and obstruction of enterprise. The court docket dominated that the person’s actions “have been rooted in baseless hatred and bias towards girls”, The Korea Herald reported.
The person in his 20s was arrested final November for attacking a girl he perceived to be a feminist as a result of she had brief hair. “Since you may have brief hair, you have to be a feminist. I am a male chauvinist, and I believe feminists must be punished,” the person had stated, in accordance with the South Korean police. He reportedly kicked and punched the lady who was working at a comfort retailer in Jinju within the South Gyeongsang province.
He additionally assaulted a buyer, a person in his 50s, who tried to intervene. “Why are you not taking my facet? She is a feminist,” the accused allegedly informed the shopper.
The accused continued the assault till he was stopped by police after they arrived on the scene to search out him in a drunken state.
The girl suffered critical ligament accidents and listening to impairment whereas the male buyer suffered fractures to face and shoulder. The attacker hit him with a chair.
The accused later pleaded responsible however claimed he was in a state of “psychological and bodily weak point”.
“The defendant repeatedly declared ‘feminists should be hit’ whereas attacking the feminine clerk and questioned the intervening male sufferer by asking, ‘Why aren’t you siding with a fellow man?’ indicating a misogynistic motive,” the court docket stated.
South Korean girls carrying brief hair have been focused by males who think about them to be feminist, a time period usually confused with misandry.
When archer An San gained three gold medals on the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, males again house have been busy criticising her brief hair. To counter the rising criticism of Ms An internet, many South Korean girls, together with politicians and celebrities, posted messages and photographs of their very own cropped hair to help the athlete.
South Korea ranks poorly for gender equality amongst superior nations.
The nation has the worst gender pay hole amongst OECD nations and is constantly ranked on the backside on the Economist’s Glass Ceiling Index, which assesses the extent to which girls expertise equal therapy within the office.
South Korean president, Yoon Suk-yeol, 62, disavowed the label of a feminist when he was working for workplace. He had beforehand insinuated that feminism was liable for the abysmal birthrate, which is at the moment the world’s lowest and has left the Asian nation going through demographic collapse.
