Dialogues on Gender Inequality in South Korea and the UK

2021年，韩国和英国都在考虑性别和性别不平等以及偏见的影响。该网络旨在建立一个关于语言、文学和艺术如何介入社会性别不平等问题的跨文化对话。它将汇集英国和韩国的学者，涉及文学研究和社会科学，探讨文本的国际传播，以及#MeToo时代的阅读和写作政治。该项目将以两个研讨会、两个研讨会和两个访问讲座为中心，以调查英国和韩国之间性别不平等话语中的文化交流。实地考察将包括面向学生的研究领导的讲习班，以探索#MeToo之后性别不平等的语言和象征意义。除了网络的中心结构，我们将共同努力，为未来的合作和东道国机构之间更紧密的联系提供一系列机会。韩国的性别不平等问题由来已久，在过去五年里达到了高潮。在2016年发生“江南站谋杀案”后，全球#MeToo运动在首尔获得了支持，活动人士抗议儒家父权结构对女性的影响这一更广泛的问题。尽管韩国是经合组织中受教育程度最高的女性人口，但该国37%的性别薪酬差距是经合组织中最大的，远远超过成员国平均水平(14%)的两倍。女性的平均收入是男性的63%(Foster-Carter，2019)。在全球性别差距指数中，韩国排名第102位(世界经济论坛，2021年)。然而，韩国的女权主义运动遭遇了广泛的反弹。在2021年全球性别差距指数中，英国关于性别不平等的统计数据呈现了一幅更积极的图景，该国排名第23。然而，这些统计数据掩盖了一种文化，在这种文化中，关于机构中嵌入的机会平等的公众言论混淆了结构性不平等和偏见，科维病大流行突出并加剧了这些不平等和偏见。2021年8月，普利茅斯发生恐怖枪击事件，萨拉·埃弗雷德谋杀案引发了全国性的抗议活动。然而，作为国家对话的一部分，英国尚未直接使用非人性化和性别化的语言来解决基于性别的暴力的基础。拟议的项目将语言、文学和艺术置于对性别不平等和暴力的调查的中心，重点是两国在这一领域充满活力的跨文化交流。它强调了解文学文本和重新使用的单词和短语如何在这些文化中施加影响，重新调整不平等，并反过来--实施不平等。它调查了书面文字是如何被封装和武器化的，以对抗韩国和英国文化中的不平等。考虑到性别平等是联合国可持续发展目标之一，它还更广泛地询问，面对性别和性别不平等，跨文化艺术对话如何提供灵感和社区，关注语言和文学可以被武器化的方式，以及在哪些论坛上，挑战韩国和英国的性别和性别不平等。研讨会和讲习班将以英语举行，所有核心参与者都能流利地使用英语，其主要重点是术语和思想的英语交流(韩语为英语；韩语翻译为英语)。话虽如此，我们欢迎并将在指定与会者的支持下促进对翻译做法的讨论。书面和播客输出将被翻译成韩语，并将在首尔的活动中提供翻译。

In 2021 South Korea and the UK are each reckoning with the effects of sexual and gender inequality and prejudice. This network aims to establish a cross-cultural dialogue on how language, literature, and the arts intervene on issues of gender inequality in society. It will bring together scholars from the UK and South Korea, across literary studies and the social sciences, to explore the international circulation of texts, and the politics of reading and writing in the era of #metoo. The project will centre on two symposia, two workshops, and two visiting lectures, in order to investigate cultural exchange in discourses of gender inequality between the UK and South Korea. The field trips will include student-facing research-led workshops to explore the language and symbolism of gender inequalities in the wake of #metoo. Beyond the central structures of the network, we will work together to scope a range of opportunities for future collaboration and closer ties between the host institutions.The problem of gender inequality in South Korea is long-standing and it has come to a climax in the past five years. Following the femicide 'Gangnam Station murder case' in 2016, the global #metoo movement gained traction in Seoul with activists protesting against the wider issue of how Confucian, patriarchal structures bear on women. Despite the fact that South Korea has the most highly educated female population in the OECD, 'the country's gender pay gap of 37% is OECD's largest, far more than twice the average in member states (14%). Average female earnings are 63% of male ones' (Foster-Carter, 2019). In the Global Gender Gap Index, South Korea is ranked 102nd (World Economic Forum, 2021). Yet feminist movements in South Korea have experienced a widespread backlash.On paper, the UK's statistics on gender inequality present a more positive picture, with the country ranked 23rd in the 2021 Global Gender Gap Index. However, such statistics mask a culture in which the public discourse on equal opportunities embedded in institutions obfuscate the structural inequalities and prejudices, highlighted and heightened by the Covid pandemic. The Incel terrorist shooting in Plymouth in August 2021, Sarah Everard's murder case have catalysed national protests. However, the UK is yet to directly address the bases of gender-based violence in dehumanizing and sexualized language, as part of a national conversation. The proposed project puts language, literature and the arts at the centre of its enquiry into gender inequality and violence, focusing on the vibrant cross-cultural exchanges between the two countries in this area. It puts emphasis on understanding how literary texts and reappropriated words and phrases have exerted influence across these cultures to both readdress inequalities and - contrariwise - to perpetrate them. It investigates how the written word has encapsulated and been weaponized against inequality across South Korean and UK cultures. Mindful that Gender Equality is one of the UN Sustainable Development Goals it asks more broadly too how cross-cultural dialogues in the arts have provided inspiration and community in the face of sexual and gender inequality, looking at the ways in which language and literature can be weaponized, and in what forums, to challenge sexual and gender inequality in South Korea and the UK. The symposia and workshops will take place in English, with all core participants fluent in English, and its main stated focus is the English-language circulation of terms and ideas (English in South Korea; Korean translated into English). This said, we welcome and will promote the discussion of translation practices with support from named participants. The written and podcast outputs will be translated into Korean and translation will be available for the Seoul-based events.