Contemporary South Korean Society by Unknown

Author:Unknown
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 1075022
Publisher: Taylor and Francis

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In examining frames of women’s policy issues of the women’s movement, this study focuses on activities of the Korea Women’s Associations United (KWAU) and analyzes the proceedings of its regular general meetings and its periodical Minju Yeoseong [Democratic Women]. The progressive women’s organizations in Korea formed the KWAU as a national association of 21 women’s organizations in 1987, contributed to the June democratization movement, and led women’s movements in the 1990s with the issues of women’s right to lifelong work, maternity protection, the elimination of sexual violence, national unification, comfort women, and politics of everyday life.

For the frame of the government’s official policies on women, I analyzed the records of the National Assembly. The analysis uses speeches delivered on women at the regular plenary sessions from 1981 to 1999 National Assembly. Since the National Assembly is Korea’s most important legislative institution, it is indispensable to the study of the policy-making process and the formation of discourse. The data for this study were obtained by searching the database of the National Assembly Library for all the records which include the word “women.” A total of 235 cases have been established by classifying the contents of speeches according to the themes they deal with and counting each theme as a case. Here the records of women’s affairs are roughly classified into family, labor, sexuality, welfare, and politics, for each of which specific issues are further identified. A frame can then be constructed by picking out the key ideas which underlie the specific issues. In addition, by quantifying how often a particular issue is brought up, I perform a content analysis to determine the tendency of increase or decrease of support for a particular package of ideas in each period.

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