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1983
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1984
- Women’s Activists Union founded in order to abolish the mandatory early retirement of 25-year-old women
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1986
- Korea Broadcasting Service (KBS) subscription fee collector abuse case and boycotting subscription fee campaign
- Opened ‘A Window for Women’s Issues’ for workplace discrimination/sexual assault against women issues
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1987
- Opened ‘Shimteo,’ the first shelter for female victims of spousal abuse
- Produced domestic violence related film, ‘Liberating from Restraints’
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1988
- The first regular meeting held
- The first action taken towards a self-defense against sexual assault case
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1991
- Public hearing to promote legislation of laws on sexual crimes
Committee organized for promoting the enactment of laws on special cases of sexual crimes
- The first ’16 days of Activism against Violence against Women’ event, ‘Have Your Souls Born into a Lotus Flower,’ held
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1992
- Open debate conference on spousal beating, ‘Beaten Wife, Shattered Life,’ held
Cultural Event, ‘Women, push the boundaries,’ held
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1993
- Enactment of laws on special cases of sexual crimes
- Production of film ‘Sexual abuse, breaking away from the chain’ for educational purposes
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1994
- Open debate conference for promoting laws on Domestic Violence Prevention
- Nation-wide Union organized to promote laws on Domestic Violence Prevention
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1995
- Lawyers’ Association for Peace foe Women/ Men’s Association for gender equality
- Association for promoting gender equality in laws
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1996
- The first sex education program made for teenage girls, ‘Camp for Our Daughters’
- Nation-wide Campaign Center established to promote domestic violence prevention laws
- ‘Citizen’s Day’ held to facilitate and to promote domestic violence prevention laws
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1997
- ‘Act on Special Cases Concerning the Punishment of Crimes of Domestic Violence’ and
- ‘Act on the Prevention of Domestic Violence and Protection of Victims’ enacted
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1998
- Emergency Hotline for Women (#1366) established
(Branches in Seoul, Suwon, Gwangju, Woolsan, Iksan)
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2000
- Debate Conference on ‘Wife Rape’
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2001
- National Counseling Contest
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2002
- Joint Marital Property Nationwide Campaign
- Teen Film Festival for Domestic Violence Prevention
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2003
- White Paper on Human Rights published/ Film produced for celebrating 20th Anniversary
- Lawsuit filed against SBS broadcasting company for disclosing the victim’s identity
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2004
- Korean-Japanese Women’s Rights Symposium
- Debate Conference on ‘False Accusation,’ Reframing of Sexual Crimes
- Sex Culture Festival for Teens held
- Damage lawsuit filed to the government and police for insufficient handling of violence crimes against women (The Ms. Fwang’s Case)
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2005
- International Interdisciplinary Congress on Women Symposium held
- Photo Contest and Exhibition held, ‘Millions of work she does at home’
- Education program for teens to prevent domestic violence, ‘Thumbs down with violence! Thumbs up with talking!’ Teacher’s Manual and CD produced
- Dongjakgu Peace Village Festival
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2006
- Discourse on Divorce in New Light Movement- Meeting for Divorced parties
- Activists Training system, E.L,F, (Empowering, Leadership, Feminism) organized
- The first Film Festival for Women’s Rights, “Fiwom” held
- Design Contest and Exhibition held on interviewing women and her work, “Her 25 hours, 366 days”
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2007
- Migrant women’s visit to their mothers- “Let’s Fly Project” held
- The second Film festival for Women’s Rights, “Intimate, but fatal” held
- The first public UCC contest, ‘Let’s find beautiful hands’ held
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2008
- International Symposium held - Government responsibility for domestic violence and roles of the women rights movement
- The third Film Festival for Women’s Rights, ‘Over the boundaries, make a way’ held
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2009
- Asian Women’s Network Forum held
- Asian Women Rights Activists Training Program organized
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2010
- Women Rights Information Center constructed
- The fourth Film Festival for Women’s Rights held, ‘Now that we began, with no fear!’
- Korean Institute of Feminist Counseling Theory and Practice in affiliation with Korean Women’s Hot Line organized
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2011
- Mobile dating application, ‘Date Up,’ released
- The fifth Film Festival for Women’s Rights, ‘Light On,’ held
- Public advertisement campaign for domestic violence prevention produced and released
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2012
- The sixth Film Festival for Women’s Rights held, ‘Detective’
- ‘Moving’ Village Model Making Project to end domestic violence organized
- Public advertisement to prevent violence against women, 'Right Now', produced
- Commemoration for female victims of violence and joint action for the elimination of violence against women
- Integrated Human Rights Education Program for Teenagers
- ‘World without Violence, Talk-Talk,’ Teacher’s manual and CD made
- Tuesday Protests to end violence against women organized
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2014
- Debate to legislate a special law that punishes stalking crimes
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2015
- A fairy tale about domestic violence prevention, 『Open the Door Wide』 published
- The first Festival Kick held
- Talk concert ‘Real Dating Talk, 愛:Say’ published
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2016
- Press conference by women’s organizations to deal with human rights violation at the memorial for the Gangnam Station femicide (woman killing) victim
- Research and final presentation on the reality of dating violenceTo ’us’ who needs more ’speaking’ - conference on issues and directions regarding the ’speaking’ of gender violence
- The 10th Film Festival for Women’s Rights, ‘Simply, with fullest heart’ held
● Major Publications
- Keep Quiet, Neighbors Hear You, 1986
- He Said He Did Not Hit, 1993
- Story about the Shelter, 1994
- Women Rights Movement and Social Welfare, 1997
- The History of the Korean Women’s Rights Movement, 1999
- Rewriting Sexual Violence, 2003
- The History of the Korean Women’s Rights Movement (in Japanese), 2004
- Feminist Counseling in Korea, 2005
- Woman Went All the Way, 2008
- Domestic Violence- from Women Right’s Point of View, 2008
- Feminist Perspectives in Maintaining Shelters for Domestic Violence, 2008
- Feminist Counseling and Supervision, 2012