In this post I want to focus on a recent South Koren movie "Born 1982." This movie has caused quite a stir in that country's patriarchal and conservative society,  shaped by Confusianism mixed with Taoism and Buddhism.

The movie is about a woman who becomes a stay-at-home mother. Interestingly, the husband helps with the children and the household chores. Men, who have seen this movie consider it "a feminist fantasy."

In reality, women are not seen as individuals, only as mothers, wives or daughters-in-law. Married women are often not addressed by their names but only as "so-and-so's mother" or "so-and-so's wife."

Furthermore, Korean society teaches men through the education system and media that the perspectives of men are most important.

P.S. I my next post I will focus on Confusianism.