I’m sure that you’ve heard about MeToo movement
recent days.
Seoul YWCA had an Open forum for ‘MeToo Movement
and Media report’ to eradicate the violence of gender on 20th, March
at Seoul YWCA auditorium.
This forum was to indicate the problem how
media report the issue related with MeToo and to discuss what should we do to improve
this matter.
Seoul YWCA has worked to advance women’s
right since 1922, and is still working on support women who stepped out to
explain what they experienced.
Women had endured for a long time before
MeToo movement came out, and this is a new wave that they are no longer hiding
their experience related with sexual violence. With this new wave, Media
reports these issues every day, but they are missing something really important
only by focusing sexually provocative subject. Because of this distorted media report,
it causes secondary victimization of sexual violence victims.
The subject of open forum was ‘How Media
treat MeToo movement.’ and there were 3 panels.
Yeo Jin Yoon (Board member of Media Right
Center), Jung Hoon Park (Reporter of Oh my News), Sun Young Park (Researcher of
Women’s development institute)
Through the forum, they all pointed out
that the media doesn’t care about the victims. The Media has to help victims
preventing the recurrence of sexual violence, but they are going backwards to use
misleading words, or just write down what other reporters did.
Yeo Jin Yoon especially indicated that the
Media has to check their patricentric view first, and Jung Hoon Park also pointed
out the problem of Press. Every reporter obsessed to increase viewers by
writing sexually provocative words, so that the Media needs to make an effort
to check by self when they write the article.
MeToo movement is to solve our society’s basic
problem; it is not individual’s problem, it’s our problem, if you look away
from this issue, you have to care about this matter from now on.
Seoul YWCA hopes to eradicate sexual
violence through right article by the media.
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