One spring day in 2016, in a public bathroom of the bustling Gangnam area, a young woman was stabbed to death by a man she had never met before. “I did it because women have always ignored me.” Despite these chilling words, the murder was not ruled a hate crime, revealing a disheartening truth about Korean culture: for centuries, women have been considered mere subordinate objects that should serve men…
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