Warning: linkbait headline may lead to rage.
Yonhap fools me with the above headline but the South Korean Foreign Minister during a lecture at Ewha Women’s University said:
“While abroad, I noticed that our country’s competitiveness is in our women,” he said during a lecture in front of dozens of female students at Seoul’s Ewha Womans University. “Wherever I went, the people who gave me the most practical help were all women.”
Oh? Practical help, you say?
The minister recounted the various ways in which he received help from the South Korean wives of foreign diplomats in Moscow while opening the South Korean embassy there in the early 1990s. He also noted that South Korean female golfers have “taken all the top spots” on the global stage.
I see. So… the great advances in women’s participation involve being wives (revolutionary!) and being good at golf (stop the presses!).
Grrr…
I think he might be right… but the evidence he used demonstrates that there’s still a long ways to go.
agree. hence, the rage.
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