South Korea's 4B Movement, controversial, inspiring or problematic?
The 4B Movement, a revolution that emerged from Korean feminist circles to inspire women to protest against traditional norms and gender inequality in the country, the rest of the delegations have speaked and raised with starting ideas to challenge and face South Korea's patriarchal culture. The delegation of Spain has shown main interest in the spread of information as a crucial point for the debate regarding the catastrophe since the 4B movement raised when women started telling their experiences and opinions through social media, which sparked venezuela's interest to look for a change of perspective over gender roles and inequality a bold point of view that that the delegation of Venezuela presented to the committee.
India unafraid appealed to the implementation of laws on its own land this triggered a long questionnaire held by Canada, France, China and South Korea asking india for further information toward the body of laws, although the country of india unsure about their information and answers left doubts and questions from the rest of the committee.
As 4B women "aren't fighting the patriarchy" but "leaving it behind entirely", striking arguments were presented correlated about women being able to be friends with men and having a traditional “housewife” life where hate groups toward feminists have joined the topic who believe that Feminism is a mental illness and a social evil. This is reflected on
social media, where according to South Korea's National Human Rights Commission, “women” and “feminists” are two of the most common targets of online hate speech making the 4B movement a major discussion topic in the country of South Korea.
Inequality on the working sphere has not being forgotten or left behind during the debate, South Korea showed strong interest in the implementation of a serie of legislations towards maintaining equality between the male and female workers on the space, if the committee decides to take leading action towards this issue it will be an important step forward for the countries. Questions and answers were provided, will actions be taken? The delegations seem desperate but with a common goal to challenge traditional social norms of South Korea and the world, while inspiring women.
