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Hawon Jung

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Journalist & Author of Flowers of Fire: The Inside Story of South Korea's Feminist Movement. Ex

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Seoul. Words on

@nytimes

@globeandmail

@thenation

, etc.

Germany & South Koreahawon-jung.comJoined May 2009

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Hawon Jung

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Mar 7

After years of reporting, writing, editing (and banging my head against the keyboard in frustration), I'm happy to announce that Flowers of Fire, my book about South Korea's feminist movement, is finally out! A big shoutout & thanks to everyone who made this possible.

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"We recently had the chance to speak with

@allyjung

about her important new book Flowers of Fire: The Inside Story of South Korea's Feminist Movement and What It Means for Women's Rights Worldwide"

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9DASHLINE — In Conversation with Hawon Jung

9DASHLINE recently had the chance to speak with Hawon Jung about her important new book Flowers of Fire: The Inside Story of South Korea's Feminist Movement and What It Means for Women's Rights...

Hawon Jung

@allyjung

May 4

Since the thread is blowing up, here's a bit of shameless self-promotion: Flowers of Fire, which chronicles S.Korea's feminist movement, also explains about no-kids zones, why so many women in S.Korea shun marriage/childbirth, and many more. If interested:

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Flowers of Fire by Hawon Jung: 9781637742419 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books

"Invigorating debut . . . [a] full-throated rallying cry." —Publishers Weekly One of Ms. Magazine's "most-anticipated feminist books of 2023" An eye-opening firsthand account of the...

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"But all of us are, or were once children...The society we want is not one that is only made for people who are quick, skillful, and experienced - but one where it's okay to be slow, clumsy, or inexperienced," Yong said (apologies for the photo dump, but the child is so cute!😅)

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"In order to boost our birthrate that is the world's lowest, we should first change our society that rejects children,"

@yong_hyein

said. "Children are our fellow citizens who learn about the world for the first time, so they can be slow, clumsy, or inexperienced in everything."

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FYI, South Korea has recorded the lowest birthrates in the world for years, and the increasing prevalence of the public/private spaces enforcing the "no-kids" rule sparked a viral (and bitter) joke, "South Koreans love no-kids zones so much that the whole country has become one."

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What a photo. In S.Korea, a growing number of venues like cafes, casual bistros, or even public libraries ban children under the "no kids" banner, supposedly not to inconvenience other patrons. One MP criticized the "exclusionary" practice in a presser, with her toddler in tow.

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South Korea’s biggest Pride parade is pressing ahead in defiance of "discrimination," after Seoul govt denied the LGBTQ organizers a venue permission, and instead granted it to a Christian youth event.

washingtonpost.com

No Pride for South Korea: Seoul denies parade permit, citing schedules

Seoul's city government said two events applied for permits on the same day — and the Christian youth event won. But Pride advocates see social conservatism at work.

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Hawon Jung

@allyjung

May 2

For those interested, here's the brief history of the brothels at US camp towns in South Korea - from Flowers of Fire.

An important story about S.Korea's "comfort women for US troops"- prostitutes who served GIs at US camp towns while enduring horrendous abuse & exploitation for decades. Diseased, impoverished & stigmatized, these elderly women are now seeking compensation from S.Korea & the US.

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@nytimes

May 2

South Korean “comfort women” were exploited for U.S. troops well beyond the Korean War — and the women’s own government facilitated it. “The Americans need to know what some of their soldiers did to us,” a woman who was sold to a pimp in 1975 at 16 said. nyti.ms/3NxGvhS

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Jean Yoon (윤 진 희 or 尹真姬)

@jean_yoon

Apr 30

I’m excited to start reading this, the story of Korean women’s #MeToo movement, and the ongoing struggle for equality of my sisters across the big sea.

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"If...US extended nuclear deterrence credibility is not the issue for the South Korean general public, but is the concern for South Korean elites, then the US is in a bind." Interesting, insightful read from

@38NorthNK

38north.org

Speaking Loudly and Carrying a Small Stick: South Korea Backtracks Over the Nuclear Rubicon - 38...

Earlier this year, South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol made a pronouncement that no leader in Seoul has ever made before.…

“Younger Koreans don’t know the lyrics to ‘American Pie,’ but they know about the Inflation Reduction Act,” Prof. John Delury says about what younger South Koreans expected from their president’s trip to Washington.

nytimes.com

After Warmth From Biden, South Korea’s Leader Faces a Different Tune at Home

President Yoon Suk Yeol’s foreign policy, aligning his country more closely with Washington and Tokyo, has polarized his country. And critics say he has won little to show for it.

Received

’s book in the mail today - excited to delve into this and learn about South Korea’s feminist movement.

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Prof. Shazia Choudhry

@ProfSChoudhry

Apr 29

Just started this excellent book by

@allyjung

on South Korea's feminist movement. Such inspiring stories of individual resistance against structural & systemic barriers to justice.

Yoon, not Biden, takes lead on hawkish tone on North Korea at White House press conference: Any nuclear attack will be met "swiftly, overwhelmingly and decisively with the full force of the alliance including US nuclear weapons"

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Apr 26

#BREAKING South Korea's Yoon says response to North Korean nuclear attack would include US nukes

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South Korea's President Yoon Suk Yeol was in hot water Tuesday after comments he made about former colonial power Japan not needing to "kneel down" to improve ties went viral on social media.

msn.com

South Korean president's office defends his viral Japan comments

South Korea's President Yoon Suk Yeol was in hot water Tuesday after comments he made about former colonial power Japan not needing to "kneel down" to improve ties went viral on social media. Yoon...

Hawon Jung

@allyjung

Apr 17

S.Korean poet & #metoo trailblazer Choi Young-Mi once said #metoo is not a fight between men & women but a fight between our past & the future. I talked abt how that fight had played out in S.Korea & why this story mattered in this convo with

@asiasociety

. Tune in if interested.

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Asia Society NY

@AsiaSocietyNY

Apr 16

Learn about the trailblazing feminist movement in South Korea!

Watch our Asia Society Magazine interview with @allyjung: youtu.be/FFk1d-5_zws

For my first story for

@latimes

, I wrote about jjokbangs, illegal cramped single-person occupancies in South Korea that have come to fill the public housing gap.

latimes.com

In Seoul's 'piece rooms,' there's barely enough space to lie down. Inside South Korea's brutal...

Seoul has fewer people living on the streets than Los Angeles. But tens of thousands live in illegal units so small there is barely enough space to lie down.

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Read the remarkable story of Songmi Park - a teenage North Korean escapee. She was on a quest to find her mother who had left her behind as a child more than a decade earlier. She was one of the last people to make it out before the borders closed.

bbc.com

The daughter who fled North Korea to find her mother

Reunited in Seoul after a decade apart, Songmi asks her mother why she left her behind in the north.

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"Then, as has happened after incidents from the Sandy Hook mass shooting to the disappearance of British woman Nicola Bulley, an internet mob formed: Lee and his family's personal tragedy was mocked, belittled, and misrepresented online."

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@AFP

Apr 10

First, he lost his child in Seoul's Halloween crowd crush. Then came a torrent of online abuse, upending his family's once-private life and making him an internet-wide figure of mockery

@AFP story by @shizzzm u.afp.com/iBHC

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Washington Independent Review of Books

Today,

reviews

's "comprehensive...absorbing" FLOWERS OF FIRE: THE INSIDE STORY OF SOUTH KOREA'S FEMINIST MOVEMENT AND WHAT IT MEANS FOR WOMEN'S RIGHTS WORLDWIDE (

@BenBellaBooks

): washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/bookreview/flo

It was a great pleasure to review

@allyjung

's harrowing and inspirational new book “Flowers of Fire”. A must read for anyone who wants to understand modern South Korea.

economist.com

Inside the fight against misogyny and patriarchy in South Korea

In “Flowers of Fire”, Hawon Jung chronicles an urgent—and unfinished—campaign

Hawon Jung

@allyjung

Apr 6

"The urge to tell stories as an act of compassion and support animates “Flowers of Fire"...Drawing on her years of reporting for AFP, the author skillfully merges personal memories with facts and statistics." Thanks

@TheEconomist

for the wonderful review.

economist.com

Inside the fight against misogyny and patriarchy in South Korea

In “Flowers of Fire”, Hawon Jung chronicles an urgent—and unfinished—campaign

“South Korea went through a very powerful wave of feminist movements since mid to late 2010s, and that resulted in a great shift in the country's gender dynamics,”

@allyjung

said during an interview with

@AsiaSociety

Magazine Watch the full conversation: youtube.com/watch?v=FFk1d-

In this new investigation, the FT and RUSI reveal the Chinese criminal networks behind North Korea's overseas oil procurement and financing operations. Read our visual story about gangsters, ghost ships and spies operating out of Hong Kong and Macau:

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Inside North Korea’s oil smuggling: triads, ghost ships and underground banks

An investigation into the Chinese criminal networks helping to prop up the rogue nuclear regime

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My latest piece for the Guardian on South Korea's desperate attempts to combat its record-low birthrate. In the past few days, we've seen controversial proposals put forward, igniting debates on modern-day slavery and gender equality.

theguardian.com

Foreign maids and no military service: South Korea criticised over ideas to boost birthrate

Proposals have sparked accusations of modern-day slavery and gender inequality as urgency builds in Seoul’s race to lift world’s lowest birthrate

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Dispatching assassins is easy, but handling her moody teenage daughter is impossible: South Korea's top actress Jeon Do-yeon is back with a new action movie, blending killer fight scenes with parental angst.

@AFP

story: yhoo.it/3G6WL4C

Breaking News: Ryuichi Sakamoto, the Oscar-winning Japanese composer who scored films including “The Last Emperor,” “The Sheltering Sky” and “The Revenant,” has died at 71. nyti.ms/40yxI2Q

A portrait of Ryuichi Sakamoto. Photo by Nathan Bajar for The New York Times.

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@D_T_Monitoring

Mar 31

'정하원 기자'의 책 <FLOWERS OF FIRE>가 드디어 나왔습니다. 서진현 전 검사를 비롯, 다양한 성폭력 피해생존자들의 기록이 담긴 글입니다. 저 역시 제 개인의 경험과 연대자로서 함께 했던 피해자들의 이야기로 책에 나옵니다. 2019년의 <마녀들의 화형식>을 기억하시는 분들, 조금만 기다리세요.

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#UPDATE The US believes Russia is seeking to send a delegation to North Korea and is offering Pyongyang food in exchange for munitions, White House national security spokesman John Kirby said Thursday. u.afp.com/iXGq 📷 April 2019

I had the pleasure of talking abt feminism & antifeminism in South Korea, the "birth strike" among young women & why I wrote Flowers of Fire in this interview with

@triplejHack

, a current affairs radio program for young Australians. Tune in if interested.

abc.net.au

Climate deal done, Labor dominance, #MeToo in Korea and how sweat could help your anxiety - triple j

The stories that matter to young Australians, in your ears and 24/7 on your feeds.

The US and South Korea send thousands of troops and 23-ton vehicles to practice a beach assault cnn.it/40IbwD1

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Women's rights in South Korea "regressed" in 2022 as the new government under President Yoon Suk-Yeol cut resources to combat "pervasive" digital sex crimes & sought to abolish the gender equality ministry,

@amnesty

said in its annual human rights report.

amnesty.org

Amnesty International Report 2022/23: The state of the world’s human rights - Amnesty International

2022 saw new, renewed and protracted conflicts that led to appalling tragedies. Some of them amounted to war crimes and crimes against humanity. Across the world, authorities continued their heavy-...

Hawon Jung

@allyjung

Mar 29

A top security advisor to South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol quit - the third abrupt departure of a presidential aide handling diplomacy in a month - amid reports of troubles with planning Yoon's state visit to the US next month.

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Yonhap News Agency

@YonhapNews

Mar 29

Nat'l security adviser resigns amid reported trouble planning U.S. state visit en.yna.co.kr/view/AEN202303

Hawon Jung

@allyjung

Mar 28

"A 2021 gov't survey found that Japanese women spend around four times as long on chores and childcare as men, even with more husbands working from home. Ayako is outspoken online, but said she finds herself "shunned" when she speaks about gender-related issues in real life."

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AFP News Agency

@AFP

Mar 28

'Don't blame women': online debate over Japan's falling birth rate. The government has made tackling the falling birth rate a top priority, but with few women involved in the official debate on the issue, some are making themselves heard on social media u.afp.com/i8Ra

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has called for his nuclear scientists to increase production of weapons-grade material to make bombs to put on his increasing range of weapons.