Miss Corée 2013 : l'attaque des clones. Ce sont de jolis visages, souriants.
En jetant un coup d’oeil à ces photos, on peut avoir l’impression de voir 20 fois la même fille, avec une coiffure et des vêtements différents. En regardant de plus près, on s’aperçoit qu’il s’agit juste de jeunes filles partageant plusieurs traits. Ces candidates au concours Miss Corée du Sud ont beaucoup circulé sur internet, d’abord sur un blog japonais, puis sur le site de partage Reddit. ShenTheWise a initialement publié la photo avec le commentaire suivant : "Le chaos de la chirurgie esthétique coréenne converge finalement dans le même visage". Parmi les 3.225 commentaires, de nombreuses personnes partagent l’avis de cet internaute.
"Je vis en Corée et les femmes plus âgées se plaignent que les filles ne ressemblent plus à des Coréennes à cause la chirurgie esthétique. Le pays de la chirurgie esthétique La Corée du Sud possède le taux le plus élevé de chirurgie esthétique au monde selon une étude de 2012 publiée dans "The Economist". Feminisme vs Drama. This week’s post could have been devoted to sane and sensible things that people might actually be interested in reading, like reviews of the new crop of Kdramas.
Being a difficult human being, I instead opted to write the following diatribe about the finer points of gender relations in Kdramas. Sorry. Feminism is a weirdly fraught topic in America, as if there’s something controversial about the notion that women are equal to men and deserve to be treated as such. I suspect that it’s even more so in Korea—as in most of Asia, Confucian-rooted patriarchy is still a major cultural force there. I’ve always considered myself to be a feminist. The two most off-putting shows I’ve seen to date when it comes to women’s rights have been A Gentleman’s Dignity and Family’s Honor, a 56-episode drama that aired in 2008 .
In the youthful, girl-centric dramas I usually seek out, the patriarchal nature of Korean culture has a subtler influence. “I’ll take responsibility.” “Otokay?!?” The wrist grab. Feminisme et Egalité des sexes. Livre controversé sur l'avortement. The recent publication of a book by twenty-five Korean women who had abortions has stirred up debate about the widespread, albeit illegal practice of abortion in South Korea.
The twenty-five women each told the story of their decision and the grief they have dealt with since going ahead with their procedures. Coverage by Seoul News pointed out the ‘inconvenient truth’ that, contrary to public opinion, most women who have abortions are married women, not unwed teenagers. The women profiled in the new book talked about the discrimination they suffered from doctors, their peers, and their husbands. In the words of Jeong-min, an office worker in her forties, “Telling women they have to give birth no matter what without also changing our perceptions about single mothers or providing more support for them doesn’t make any sense.” Many readers criticised the twenty-five profiled women for their perceived selfishness, while others attacked men for being reluctant to use contraception.