{"id":67952,"date":"2024-11-27T08:05:42","date_gmt":"2024-11-26T23:05:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/nov\/27\/south-korea-dongduk-womens-university-protests-male-students"},"modified":"2024-11-27T08:05:42","modified_gmt":"2024-11-26T23:05:42","slug":"wed-rather-perish-protests-roil-south-korean-womens-university-over-plan-to-admit-male-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=67952","title":{"rendered":"\u2018We\u2019d rather perish\u2019: protests roil South Korean women\u2019s university over plan to admit male students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dongduk women\u2019s university in Seoul was set up to help women in a deeply patriarchal society, but a demographic crisis is putting that under pressure<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chosun.com\/national\/national_general\/2024\/11\/19\/SLMRY7YRONBKRBLF2HOOTBKGIE\/\">Spray paint and protest banners<\/a> cover the walls and pavements of Dongduk women\u2019s university in Seoul. \u201cWe\u2019d rather perish than open our doors,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pressian.com\/pages\/articles\/2024111512010617571\">reads one slogan<\/a>. Since 11 November, students have staged a sit-in, initially occupying the main building and blocking access to classroom buildings across campus, forcing classes to move online and a planned job fair to be cancelled.<\/p>\n<p>The outcry was sparked by plans for some departments to admit male students but have since spiralled into a wider clash over the future of women-only spaces in a country that is grappling with the issue of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/nov\/15\/4b-south-korea-feminist-movement-donald-trump-election-backlash\">gender equality<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/nov\/27\/south-korea-dongduk-womens-university-protests-male-students\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dongduk women\u2019s university in Seoul was set up to help women in a deeply patriarchal society, but a demographic crisis is putting that under pressureSpray paint and protest banners cover the walls and pavements of Dongduk women\u2019s university in Seoul. \u201c&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2929,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,222,281],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-south-korea","category-women"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2929"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67952"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67953,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67952\/revisions\/67953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}