The Perception of Women in South Korea through the Prism of the Japanese Occupation in the Years 1910–1945: Confronting the Confucian Social Order with the Comfort Women Situation Cover Image

Postrzeganie kobiet w Korei Południowej przez pryzmat okupacji japońskiej w latach 1910–1945 – zderzenie konfucjańskiego porządku społecznego z sytuacją comfort women
The Perception of Women in South Korea through the Prism of the Japanese Occupation in the Years 1910–1945: Confronting the Confucian Social Order with the Comfort Women Situation

Author(s): Marlena Oleksiuk
Subject(s): Politics, Sociology, Political history, Recent History (1900 till today)
Published by: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Mikołaja Kopernika
Keywords: comfort women; okupacja japońska; przemoc wobec kobiet; konfucjanizm a kobieta; prawa kobiet

Summary/Abstract: The social situation of women in contemporary South Korea should be considered through the prism of various events taking place in the past on the Korean Peninsula. Although the state is modern, there is still no full equality between the sexes, and the women are perceived as subordinate to men. The reason of status quo is worth considering. Certainly one of the factors that had significant impact on this phenomenon was the comfort women social situation during World War II and thus during the 1910–1945 Japanese occupation in Korea and after its end. The aim of the article is to show the relationship between comfort women and contemporary perception of women in South Korea. Surely not only comfort women situation but also Confucianism has had an influence on Korean society

  • Issue Year: 38/2020
  • Issue No: 31
  • Page Range: 27-36
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: Polish