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Women athletes in South Korea subject to harassment
20-7-2018
In its today’s edition, Al Akhbar newspaper wrote that despite South Korea’s repute as a global sporting power, however, society remains hierarchical and patriarchal in many respects, especially in the male dominated sports sector. The newspaper said many incidents including rape and sexual harassment clandestinely occur within sports camps and institutions, where many young women athletes are forced into silence because speaking up could mean an end to their aspirations to become sports stars, until a bold female athlete decided to go public. On this issue, Al Akhbar said, Kim Eun Hee, 27 years, recounted to an international news agency the repeated sexual assaults by trainers against their students, stating that she was only 10 years old dreaming of tennis stardom when her coach raped her for the first time. In a related context, a 2014 study by the Korean Sports & Olympic Committee has shown that one in seven female athletes were subjected to sexual harassment in the previous year, but that 70% did not seek help. For his part, a prominent sports commentator Chung Hee joon revealed that parents of underage victims refrain to press charges when faced with the question, do you want to see your child’s future as an athlete destroyed?. (Al Akhbar, July 20, 2018)
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