Changing Tides, Turbulent Times: The Discursive Practices of Feminism in South Korean Media and Society

Abstract

The concept of social empathy is a useful tool for teaching society the art of understanding one another. This paper looks to several popular media content such as web-series and TV series as formats of narratives that effectively serves the purpose of teaching social empathy. Relevant to this analysis are the issues of political correctness, especially in the feminist political movement that is seen as highly controversial in South Korea. Through social empathy, political correctness can be viewed in a positive light, in contrast to the negative connotation it carries in the current political climate. ARTICLE HISTORY Received 10 January 2019 Revised 25 February 2019 Accepted 5 March 2019