Given KoвЂ™s status and influence in the industry, Choi suspects that her vocal resistance to the inappropriate advances led directly to the derailment of her career. Other poets have stepped up in support, describing Ko UnвЂ™s behavior as an open secret in literary circles.

That the renowned literary figure-promoted annually as a candidate for the Nobel Prize in Literature-might be a habitual molester came as a shock. вЂњEnвЂќ was soon identified as the famed Ko Un. Published last year, it accuses an older poet вЂњEnвЂќ of sexually abusing young female poets. In early February, again on JTBC Newsroom, the poet Choi Young-mi spokeВ about her poem вЂњMonsterвЂќ. The poet Choi Young-mi giving a talk on the cable show Change the World in 15 Minutes in 2011 | Flickr/м„ёмѓЃмќ„л°”кѕёлЉ”м‹њк°„ 15л¶„ She was promoted to the position of assistant chief prosecutor on July 13th and testified on July 16th. Seo has continued to push forward and has spoken against the backlash from other prosecutors. Ahn denies all charges and claims he was unaware of the allegations of sexual harassment until the media reports, and that Seo had not even been on his radar. The rest of the media took up the story immediately, heralding the interview as the beginning of the Korean #MeToo movement.ДЄs other revelations followed, legal proceedings over workplace disadvantages have dragged on. Two days later a special investigation team was launched to probe SeoвЂ™s and other cases of sexual abuse within the ProsecutorвЂ™s Office.

According to her interview, the reason she revealed her identity and experience so publicly was to promote organizational reform, demand an apology, and stand in solidarity with other victims of power-related sexual harassment. Seo stayed on at the male-dominated institution, conflicted and blaming herself for the incident. Choi is now a representative of the Liberty Korea Pary. Seo claims the reassignment stemmed from her request for an apology and was the result of an intentional cover-up by Ahn and a senior officer named Choi Gyo-il. With the вЂњMeTooвЂќ hashtag, she uploaded evidence of unfair demotion from the Seoul office to rural Tongyeong after the harassment. A few days prior Seo Ji-hyun had posted on the ProsecutorвЂ™s Office internal bulletin board about being groped by Ahn Tae-gun, a Justice Ministry official at the time, at a funeral in 2010.

This January 29, a female prosecutor revealed herself to be a victim of workplace sexual harassment through an interviewВ on JTBC Newsroom. (Caption translation: вЂReform is not possible when victims stay silent.вЂ™) | Flickr/мЅ”лћЂлЏ„ Seo Ji-hyun speaking on JTBC Newsroom on Jan 29, 2018.

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