They felt that despite the fact that she was a prosecutor, she had still not been able to talk about the sexual harassment against her. After the news interview by Ms Seo, many others across Korean society began to join the #MeToo campaign. In Korea there has been a lot of victim blaming, so usually victims could not expose their faces in public. There have been other cases of women speaking out about sexual violence in various places over the past few years in Korea, but the domestic trigger was the fact Ms Seo is a prosecutor and that she went on public TV to speak about her case. The mobilisation in South Korea did not differ much from the #MeToo response in other countries. After that interview, there was an uproar in Korean society. The #MeToo Movement in South Korea began after a female prosecutor, Ms Seo, revealed publicly in a news interview on 29 January 2018 that she had been sexually harassed by a senior prosecutor in 2010. Could you retrace for us the story of the #MeToo movement in South Korea? The movement has mobilised nationwide and has been instrumental in pushing for a review of defamation laws and a bill that would establish a special investigation agency for oversight of high-ranking public officials.ġ. CIVICUS speaks to Ranhee Song, General Secretary of Korea Women's HotLine and a women’s rights activist, about the #MeToo campaign in South Korea.

‘#MeToo is a feminist movement and feminism perfects democracy’Īhead of the publication of the 2018 State of Civil Society Report on the theme of ‘reimagining democracy’, we are interviewing civil society activists and leaders about their work to promote democratic governance, and the challenges they encounter in doing so.

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