As South Korea enters a bitter presidential race, Hong Hee-jin is one of many young women who feel that the country’s politics have become dominated by discrimination against women, even outright misogyny.
“Women are being treated like they don’t even have voting rights,” the 27-year-old Seoul office worker said.
For years, South Korean women have made slow, but steady progress in the workplace as they confronted an entrenched culture of male chauvinism and harassment, but this extremely tight presidential race, which culminates on March 9, has exposed the fragility of what has been won.
Top conservative candidate Yoon Suk-yeol and his liberal rival

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