Koreans React To The Rise Of Feminism | ASIAN BOSS 

When accustomed to privilege, equality appears oppressive

The guy with the camera knows what Feminism actually means, we stan!

"if the movement doesnt violate men's rights" -> actually he said 남성의 권위 'men's authority'. It shows the point.

This comment section is gonna be terrible

The camera guy, protect him. Let him educate his fellow dudes.

number of men killed by feminism: ... number of women killed by machism: well-

I’m Ghanaian and living in Ghana. I must say feminism has gotten Almost nowhere in this country. Ghana has a heavily patriarchal society still. As a young Ghanaian woman I can say that We NEED feminism because without it women will never be able to advance to the point where we can finally have equal opportunity with men over here. The forced submission and overt discrimination and stereotyping sickens me

for that one guy who's so worried about men's right, feminism isn't about men at all. It's about women and women only. It just means giving women the right men have always enjoyed

People really need to understand that feminism is not saying that women are better than men and that it's not misandry. Women deserve equal rights and I don't believe that there's any valid reason why they shouldn't deserve this. Especially in Asia where women are still seen as lesser, this topic should be discussed.

the fact that there is such arguing in the comments and so many people are still so against feminism just highlights the issue further

If someone asked me how I would define feminism I would say it's equality of the genders on social, political, and economic grounds.

Many places in the world are working on the issue of gender equality. Hopefully everyone is treated equally in every part of the world, so everyone lives a healthy and happy life.

I wish people of that age here in Sweden could be that respectable, mild-mannered and word-choosing when they voice their opinions.

Here to read the comments *with popcorn*

I want to marry the girl in a ponytail and the guy with glasses and a camera ✊👏👏👏👏👏

About the chests thing, I found it hilarious when I first learnt that Korean broadcasts are not allowed to show male nipples. I'm guessing it is because it looks racy...? In that way, it is pretty fair since male and female chests aren't allowed to be shown. I would be interested to hear about korean 'flower' boys. For a seemingly patriarchal society, a lot of korean male idols are very stereotypically feminine - large eyes, plump lips. While the buff, tanned look exists, the ideal male look in korea doesn't seem to be that.

"I wish one day woman role is this society as acessory to make man life pretty is forgotten."

I think, what is more important is to see others as humans, as in just don't generalize people falling under a category and instead treat them as individuals, cause everyone is different and special just like we respect that every child is special, (so that speciality doesn't goes away as they mature, rather it grows with time). So only if we can look at others with an open mind and help them when they are in need, then it doesn't matters to which gender or class or any other category that we have today he or she belongs to, i think we can make this world a better place to live in.

Very interesting video. I was actually relieved that most of the men were so openminded and supportive. In my country, the Netherlands, we already achieved gender equality for the most part, so there are no big movements needed anymore (luckily). Just awareness in society. But we had famous movements in the past. I actually learned about feminism for the first time in history class with a feminist group called Dolle Mina's (who were active in the 70s). I'm really thankful of their efforts, and I hope that South-Korea and Japan (where I currently live) can pick up the same rights as my country achieved by feminism.

Feminism or not, I hope they realize there are still such strict sets of standards on both men and women in Korea.

“If the movement doesn’t violate men’s right” jeez you don’t know how big enough is the men’s right dude

I was really looking forward for these type of videos. Thank you so much for this! It was interesting to know other people's perspectives.❤

These comments are depressing. It's hard to believe we're in 2018.

It's fantastic that nowadays countries are working on gender equality, since women and men need to be treated and respected equally, no differences should be make between them. On the other hand, all extremes are bad and there were some moments in which feminists went too far, seeing men as their 'enemy' when actually all the society is in some kind of way, including some women.

I really liked this video... Gives you a different POV from other news articles

Feminism = standing up for a woman's rights and freedoms from abuse, neglect, and manipulation.

The guy with camera and glasses gave the simplest explanation. I love his approach.

Wow this comment section is depressing

The topless at the pool question... the reason is women have been so objectified to the point they can’t even feel comfortable in their own skin

The patriarchal aspect of Korea did not stop feminism. Feminism has become a problem in Korea because it is completely wrong. Feminism in Korea is not gender equality, but female supremacy and male discrimination.

Thank you for making this!

I watched the video, I was happy to see mentalities evolving, saw the comments, I sighed

It's about time... about 50 years late, but Korean really needs this...

Thank you for bringing this up! Very interesting to see!

Awesome episode was really surprised to the responses

Girl in 02:50, thanks a lot for think like that, is amazing that young women are spreading the world about what feminism is in the real life!

As a Man myself, I totally understand that the feminist movement is important, As I've seen women facing inequality , whether it's in my own house,my school , workplace or just in society in general. So yeah We need to keep fighting until we're equal . And as Men we need to ally by women and influence as much as our fellow humans as we can. It's about time that we're not marginalised based on our genders.

Most of the young Korean men are anti-feminists. Society regards feminism as gender equality and anti-feminism as gender discrimination. However, most young men and anti-feminists in Korea pursue gender equality. This is because feminists in Korea reverse discrimination as mirroring. We need cultural relativism. Currently, the issue of gender conflict in Korea is not gender equality vs gender discrimination, but the confrontation between outdated reverse discrimination and future-oriented gender equality.

Support korean sisters.

Owh boy we're in for a long one.

Wow, the responses were such a positive surprise!

How many South Korean women have to put years of their life on hold in order to do mandatory military time? Equality my ass. Sexual harassment in the Korean workplace isn’t a women’s issue it’s a legal and society issue.

Hi, I’m a Raelian and we understand that women should have the same rights as men, in all areas and in every circumstance. And that they should definitely have the right to be topless in public without the threat of being harassed of course. Peace and love

both genders should have the same rights. Military Duty, maternity leave, going to rent in the same age (my country; women 63, men 65) if you want gender equality then for real.

I watched the video and smiled because it looked as if mentalities were evolving, I read the first two comments and sighed, I ain't gonna read more.

I'd like to start a movement against horizontal stripes. After we solve gender inequality of course.

"close-mindedness" Sure, a movement seeking to better the situation of women is close-minded, and people who'd rather cling to backwards, old-fashioned, irrational beliefs about gender relations aren't. Much open-mindedness there.

Nahh I think mostly people in korea misunderstood the feminism as feminazi

'남성들의 권리를 침해하지 않으면서' ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ 언제.. 침해했어요...

We say this is a conservative country compared to western countries regarding feminism but if you did this same interview in the west with random people you would absolutely not get this same reaction and response. People here seem to be educated to a higher extent on the topic and at least open minded in a different way compared to average westerners. I respect them for that.

Interviewers start off a lot with the question "What are some misconceptions about feminism?" All the answers these people give are from an outsider's perspective, or someone that isn't involved or knowledgeable in feminism. I feel a bigger problem than outsiders' misconceptions are some feminists' misconceptions about feminism. All the SJW/feminism fail compilations you see are examples of a population of ignorant, uninformed, and self-serving feminists that give feminism a bad rep, either because they're exaggerating/distorting certain values, or they don't fully understand the facts behind what they are fighting for.

i am watching korean entertainment shows regularly and there are so many moments i have to cringe. like when a female guest is showing her cooking skills and the male host says something like "oh, seems like she will be able to get married."! and there are so many situations similar to that where women are just being degraded to some role having no choices in life. imagine some tv star on european or american tv making remarks like that! i wonder if korean women watching also cringe at home at moments like that. i have heard of different tv episodes being canceled because of online shitstorms for other reasons, but those dumb remarks never seem to cause any controversy.

I want the man with glasses to be my husband ❤️

I loved this.

Way to go camera-holding dude!!

Please do more Videos on this🙏🏼

lots of incoming anti-feminists in the comments

The woman in glasses i absolutely love her

The camera guy and girl with glasses 😭💕👏 so well educated.

New Zealand here we come!!!

나치가 무슨뜻인지 알고 쓰는건가 진짜ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅌㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ

the commentㅋㅋㅋ hilarious ( crying in alien )

on equality: equal power comes with equal responsibility.

How interesting. That wasn't quite what I was expecting to hear.

Wow, I really got a good look on this issue given how many times I was able to *ZOOOOM IN* on the people and hear their views!

Asian Boss는 맨날 이런 저런 인터뷰하면서 중립적인척 뭔가로 몰아가는데 왜 그런지 모르겠음.

A lot of people in this comment section seem to think that if you disagree with the feminist movement or some of their views then you are somehow holding back society and/or you’re a bad person with the wrong views. You can see this a lot with these comments. Having different political views isn’t wrong and we should talk out our views instead of instantly assuming that the other side is somehow a terrible thing. We need to be more tolerant on both sides.

I have a policy of live and let live. Everyone deserves respect to honor boundaries especially women and children, women have been fighting for rights here in America and in the UK since the mid 19th Century.

The way I interpreted feminism when I was in Korea was that women there were just going about their daily lives without the babying of a man that we see in Korean dramas. Get in a woman's way; she'll just knock you out of the way. Korean women don't want to be seen as over-submissively (and they shouldn't) so they just live their lives like everyone else while rejecting some of the stereotypes that society (and maybe older generation) has set up for them, and not taking any crap!

I want more content on this topic in Asia

the girl with the ponytail, i feel her so much

i stan camera homie

조은와꾸 조은정신,,,,

We need more men like the guy with the white t-shirt and the camera 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 Thanks for the video ❤

YES to the tall guy with glasses!!!! awesome dude

I thought that at this point we as a species had come to the understanding that the radical people are always the louder ones. And that gives the illusion that that's what the movement is about. In any form of belief (political, religious, ideological) or social movement you have radical people. In. Every. Single one. Do those define the the movement in its entirety? No it doesnt. If you think it does, you just didnt do your homework and dont want to learn and understand.

Hey there! Thank you again for your insightful video, it was very good seeing that a a good amount of people support feminism. I agree on one of the ladies who said "how can you be a woman and don't support feminism??" I think we are making a lot of progress on our society by recognising this problems and unite together for the gender equity. I'm from Buenos Aires, Argentina where the wave of feminism has grown a lot in the last 4 years, we united together for the lives of hundred of woman abused and killed by men, we have the right to live in a city without danger in the streets, without street harassment, without kidnapping and rapists. In Argentina, every 30 hours a woman is killed just because she's a woman, so a movement called "Ni una Menos" was born (which translates to Not One Less, or not a woman less) We taken the streets of our country in protest, and we've become millions all over the country. Following with this feminism agenda, in Argentina the law of free and legal abortion was recently discussed. The pro-choice movement has risen thanks for the current situation of rising feminism, hundreds of woman from all ages has come together against patriartchy and got called "the green wave" of feminism (The green is the official color of the Safe, Free and Legal Abortion Campain in Argentina) we stand out from the crowd using green scarfs in support. For woman who choose to abort and know is illegal, they reach out to clandestine medial clinics where many of them die because of the dangerous procedures, and many other of them take home-made medicine for it and end up badly hurt or die. Our shout out is for all of those who can't afford to have an abort in good conditions like the rich part of Argentina can. People who choose to get an abortion have the right to get it in a safe and legal enviroment, they are not criminals. Not all woman can bring another person in the world, they have the right to choose. Following this discussion that's been running around for 13 years, a few weeks back on 8 of Agust the law almost got out, but didn't. There's still A LOT of hatred against woman choosing their rights, or they don't even recognise them as human beings. In Argentina feminism is rising, but if you'll get to interview people on the street like this? There'll be lot of men and woman (most elderly) against the word feminism. They think is degrating and that it doesn't exist a gender problem in Argentina. We are a very white and black society too, but young people are being more concious and together we continue to rise against the patriarchy society that surrond us. We still have a very long way to go, I think all of the world needs this change, especially men. We have to talk about equity and disconstructing actions that seems right, but are actually really wrong. In Argentina we had a topless protest as well, because a couple of ladies where stopped by the police because they couldn't be topless in the beach, where hundred of men where in the same position, topless. People saw the protest and were discusted, talking about "how they disrespect their bodies" doing that sort of thing. How? How can't you look beyond your own self? Woman's been sexualy objectified for YEARS, is time to change. We are human beings, we are not a sexual object for your entertainment. We are fighting for a new world, the future is feminism.

아시안보스도 은근 한쪽편을 들고 시작하네..

some of the comments saying that the nowadays “modern feminism”, is nothing but just “hate directed to man”, really don’t know about the birth of the movement and their bases and why and what are we fighting for; so, for those that have this mentality, go read a book about the matter, go watch the news but not only the news of where you live, because violence against woman (in different cases and forms) happens every minute all around the world, it’s time to break that nice little bubble y’all live in and wake up.

So so dope I want to see a Korean film out of this. Not many Korean films are making impact right now.

5:52 PREACH

equalitarianism≠korean feminism 평등주의라면서 여성에게 불리한건 회피하고 이득만 취하는 한국식 여성우월 뷔페미니즘

Intellectuals👏🏻

Why the channel's name is Asian Boss? 🙄

Slanted video, they only highlighted the supporters

4:49 she tripped

My country was great in terms of gender equality but then the missionaries came and said that the woman belongs in the kitchen and is only good for laying on her back. The place of the woman in the family and village dynamics was changed so drastically and the priest took over in terms of power. Feminism is coming back but in the generations that were reared in the missionaries’ traditions, it’s harder for them to break out of that cycle.

I came here because I have a young niece who was crying because she was shocked to read about the Seungri sex trafficking scandal. She was heartbroken that a band that she worshipped had such monsters in it. I'm shocked myself. Seungri doesn't look remotely like someone who would commit such barbarous acts. Then there are hundreds of vile comments here attacking feminism. To these misogynists -- we need feminism because men like you exist.

에휴...여성 운동하는 사람들 골라서 인터뷰 해놨네. 저럴꺼면 스튜디오에서 진행하지. 길거리에서 섭외한 거 처럼 연출하는 꼬라지 봐라...

In Mexico the feminist movement is seen as a joke because of the lack of understanding and education of the population. Mexico is a very dangerous country for women because if you read that you will think "Nah, it's dangerous in general, men die too" but the reasons are most of the time very different. Also, (mostly) the masculine population that is against the movement like to say that men suffer too when femincides or violence against women are mentioned, but don't really care about victims or do something about it, they just want to make feminism look less serious than it is. I'm glad these koreans have a not so uninformed idea of the movement. One better than the other, but it is still there. I hope the girl with the glasses and the girl with black shirt are having a good time.

In my country -US-there are liberal and radical feminists. During the late 1960s and 1970s radical feminism prevailed. Since the 1980s liberal feminism has gained more and more followers-outnumbering radicals. Which is a shame. It makes me want to travel to Korea where there are proportionally more radicals than in the US. Long live Womads!!

The equal in equal rights means NO ONE is treated unfairly, males, females, LGBTQ. Hope more people realise that.

i have no expectations when it comes to youtube comment sections yet i am continually disappointed. to all the people throwing feminazi and SJW around could you please get even a little understanding on what feminism actually is.

The women w/ black T-shirt is a typical extreme feminist in korea. like her, extreme feminists in korea talk about what their mothers and grandmothers' generation experienced. And a critical clue that she's a fake extreme feminist is that she mentioned "the community" which is a community where all the feminists that pursue PROFIT gather. I hope foreign viewers won't just believe what the women is saying. Besides that, other interviewees thoughts were legitimate.

Feminism is pretty simple, we just want equal rights. No discrimination based on gender. Also, in asia generally women are seen lesser. We just want equality. Anybody who can't understand simple concept should shut their mouth.

Nice!

They're woke AF. Unlike japanese society *sigh

okay but before I finish watching I just wanna say: I'm so lad they chose good-looking/relatively attractive people because otherwise they would've gotten so much hate and the "ugly obese women" stereotype would've been proved

Can you guys do Koreans react to Produce 48? I'd love to hear what they have to say about the show. And maybe even a Japanese react to Produce 48 to hear the other side of the spectrum.

Equality differs in each situation .. but basic needs are definitely need to be given out equally . Other rights might not be as easy as you think to have the equal rights. Just because something is done for men, to make it equal we have put on effort and create a new scenario for woman, just to make it equal. And just because women have got something made for them , doesnt mean the world has to come out for something in specific to make it equal for man in that particular scenario. At lesat equality has to done at the basic level of basic needs, like salary, position , authority, power. But showing chest? Do woman feel as much as aroused to see a man's chest? Compared to a man starring at a woman.s breast? Its on a totally different level of comparison