Young Men Are Swinging Hard Right in Korea. It’s a Warning for America.

[By CATHERINE KIM, POLITICO] (전략) Perhaps the bump in polling shouldn’t have been a surprise, especially in a country with a long history of traditional patriarchy. Backlash had already been mounting against Korea’s own #MeToo movement for years, after its peak in 2018. People were wary of the movement, which had repopularized feminism and brought down high-profile names in entertainment, academia and business. Yes, the public agreed that the movement helped address Korea’s history of gender discrimination. But there was also widespread concern that it treated men as potential criminals and wrongly penalized all men for the wrongdoings of a select few. And for young men who came of age during the #MeToo movement, those concerns were particularly pressing: In 2018, 77 percent of men under 30 supported the #MeToo movement. That number dropped to 29 percent by 2021. (후략)  

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