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[[Yoon Suk Yeol]] (born 18 December 1960) is a South Korean politician who served as the 13th president of South Korea from 2022 until his removal from office in 2025. A member of the People Power Party during his presidency, he was the shortest-serving directly elected president in the country's democratic history since 1987. Yoon previously served as the prosecutor general of South Korea from 2019 to 2021, and was sentenced to life imprisonment in 2026 for orchestrating an insurrection. |
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While in office Yoon pushed back against institutional feminism in South Korea. |
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Yoon questioned the premise that Korean society is structurally biased against women in ways that justify special policies. During his rise to the presidency, he argued that feminism—particularly state-driven gender policies—had overcorrected, resulting in discrimination against men, especially young men facing intense competition in education, employment, and mandatory military service. |
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Yoon opposed the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family, which he proposed abolishing, framing it as an outdated institution that entrenched gender conflict rather than promoting fairness. |
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Yoon appealed to young male voters, who felt alienated by gender-based hiring, quotas, and rhetoric that labeled masculinity itself as a social problem. |
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Yoon emphasised “individual merit” over group-based protections, rejecting the idea that gender alone should determine policy advantages. |
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Latest revision as of 11:32, 20 February 2026
Yoon Suk Yeol (born 18 December 1960) is a South Korean politician who served as the 13th president of South Korea from 2022 until his removal from office in 2025. A member of the People Power Party during his presidency, he was the shortest-serving directly elected president in the country's democratic history since 1987. Yoon previously served as the prosecutor general of South Korea from 2019 to 2021, and was sentenced to life imprisonment in 2026 for orchestrating an insurrection.
While in office Yoon pushed back against institutional feminism in South Korea.
Yoon questioned the premise that Korean society is structurally biased against women in ways that justify special policies. During his rise to the presidency, he argued that feminism—particularly state-driven gender policies—had overcorrected, resulting in discrimination against men, especially young men facing intense competition in education, employment, and mandatory military service.
Yoon opposed the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family, which he proposed abolishing, framing it as an outdated institution that entrenched gender conflict rather than promoting fairness.
Yoon appealed to young male voters, who felt alienated by gender-based hiring, quotas, and rhetoric that labeled masculinity itself as a social problem.
Yoon emphasised “individual merit” over group-based protections, rejecting the idea that gender alone should determine policy advantages.
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