How South Korea’s Yoon Suk-yeol capitalized on anti-feminist backlash to win the presidency
Although women across South Korean public life have reported regularly being the target of misogynistic attacks, female politicians come in for some of the worst abuse. The Justice Party’s Ryu Ho-jeong, 29, is South Korea’s youngest lawmaker, and a fierce advocate for workers rights.
But she worries that anti-feminism may have serious implications for her political career. She cares deeply about things like rights for disabled people and climate change, but she fears that being positioned as a feminist politician in a “male-centric and deeply patriarchal political environment” is the “new glass ceiling in politics.” “Whatever you say is considered to be just another feminist plot,” she says.
Yoon, South Korea's president-elect and holding a bouquet, speaks at his campaign office in the National Assembly. The former top prosecutor won the election as South Korea's president, returning the conservative opposition to power after five yearsOne woman in her early thirties, who asked not to be named because she didn’t want to publicly share her voting preferences, tells TIME after Lee conceded the election Thursday, she was “super devastated.
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