On 7th June 2022, South Korean truckers went on strike after talks with the government failed to make progress over their demands for higher pay. Peaceful Assembly Truckers strike around wages for eight days with 44 arrested The Supreme Court also made a landmark judgement on reversing convictions on same-sex sexual acts in the military.
#TRUCKERS STRIKE MARCH 2022 TRIAL#
Activist and North Korean defector Park Sang-hak remains on trial for releasing propaganda leaflets along the inter-Korean border. In recent months, truckers organised an eight-day strike for better wages, resulting in at least 44 arrests. Of particular note is that the new president has dropped his liberal predecessor’s explicit commitment to appoint women to a share of presidential cabinet posts and is likely to roll back similar quotas from other parts of the public sector. While this is a positive development, it is certainly not an about-face from the new conservative administration. However, in June 2022, it was reported that Yoon appeared to be backtracking on the campaign pledge to abolish the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family. In particular, Yoon made abolishing the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family a central pledge of his campaign, saying that there is no systemic gender discrimination in South Korea. During his campaign, Yoon and his party, the People Power Party (PPP), actively stirred up and capitalised on the anti-feminist backlash. During his inauguration speech, Yoon spoke of strengthening South Korea’s democracy and mentioned ‘freedom’ 35 times.Īhead of his inauguration, in April 2022, 116 global civil society organisations called on Yoon to withdraw his pledge to abolish the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family. On 10th May 2022, Yoon Suk-yeol - who won the elections in March 2022 - was sworn in as South Korea’s new president.
South Korea’s civic space continues to be rated as ‘narrowed’ by the CIVICUS Monitor.
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