A furious crowd gathered in central Seoul last month to protest against the policies of a man who isn't even in power.
Waving signs and wearing white sashes emblazoned with the words"Vote for Women," they accused presidential candidate Yoon Suk Yeol of attempting to appeal to anti-feminists to garner support ahead of the election."You don't deserve to be a presidential candidate, Yoon," the mainly female crowd chanted."Go away.
Last April, Moon's Democratic Party lost mayoral elections in both Seoul and its second largest city Busan, with exit polls showing young men in their 20s had overwhelmingly shifted their vote to the conservative People Power Party.And in May the Korean marketing and research firm Hankook Research said a survey of 3,000 adults found that more than 77% of men in their 20s and more than 73% of men in their 30s were"repulsed by feminists or feminism.
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