“#HeToo” by Peter Harmsen, Weekendavisen
January 28, 2022
“There is also growing fear among women’s advocates that a number of bills against discrimination, which are currently under consideration in parliament, will end up being thrown into the dustbin of history, says Korean Yoon Soo Ryon, cultural researcher at Lingnan University in Hong Kong.
‘There is a real risk that the bills will be thrown out, which will mean that a whole decade of work will go to waste, also in areas that concern MeToo. It’s a risk, regardless of who wins the election,’ she says.”
“Why some Korean women are boycotting Squid Game” by Ann Babe, Al Jazeera
October 27, 2021
“Soo Ryon Yoon, an assistant professor of cultural studies at Lingnan University in Hong Kong, echoes this sentiment: ‘The question is more about whether the success of mainstream narratives overshadow other more experimental minoritarian narratives.’ Without access to these, she says, we risk missing out on the more nuanced conversations we all deserve.”
“[Us and Them] Migrant workers’ struggles in Korea continue despite better awareness” by Jun-tae Ko, The Korea Herald
October 11, 2021
“Yoon says the case also exemplifies how unprotected migrant artists were in terms of labor rights due to abuse of foreign entertainers’ visas and lack of legal basis on how to monetarily value their work.
‘A lot of it has to be with where these performers come from, and what kinds of performances they put on,’ Yoon said in an interview with The Korea Herald.”
