#MeToo Movement Engulfs South Korea’s Workplace
- Women activists see the movement reshaping corporate culture
- South Korea’s workplace considered one of the worst for women
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While slower to emerge than in the U.S., the #MeToo movement is reverberating quickly in South Korea where a flurry of headline-grabbing accusations have ignited calls for overhauling one of the world’s worst workplaces for women.
A series of high-profile sexual assault and harassment allegations against some of Korea’s most prominent politicians, actors and professors in the past two months is inciting women’s rights rallies reminiscent of the 1960’s feminist movement in the U.S.