“Bad Women”

The “Gazette” surveyed 200 female Keimyung University students about their views on situations facing modern Korean women.

1. Your boss in the prosecutor's office tells you to find out the key to a very important case by tempting the man who has the key. Will you follow these directions?

_Yes 43%
_No 57%

2. You slept with a man in a romantic atmosphere accidentally, and you became pregnant. However, you don't want pregnancy before marriage. How do you solve this situation?

_I will have an abortion 56%
_I will have and raise the baby 44%

3. It's difficult to take care of children and to hold down a job. Would you give up your job for your child?

_Yes 52%
_No 48%

4. You love your job, and you are a great success as a career woman. Your boyfriend, who has got an offer to work overseas, proposed marriage to you, and he asked you to go abroad with him. Which one do you choose, a career woman or a wife?

_A career woman 61%
_A wife 39%

5. You are the eldest daughter and hope to study overseas in the future. Your brother, a high school senior, hopes to go to college. However, your father, a retiree, and mother, a housewife, are unable to support you and your brother. In addition, your parents want you to get a job after graduation and pay the tuition fee of your brother. How will you deal with this situation?

_I will go to study overseas with money from a part-time job 55%
_I will pay the tuition fee of my brother after getting a job 45%

6. Koreans bow to the elderly and get some money for that in New Year's holidays. Your grandmother gives ten thousand won to you and twenty thousand won to your brother. How do you act toward the grandmother who has sexual discrimination?

_I will tell her that she shouldn't be sexist and she should give money equally 33%
_I will not say anything about sexism and just thank her 67%

7. You are saving for a house. But your mother-in-law demands considerable money as living expenses every month. What is your priority?

_I will ignore her demand and buy a house 58%
_I will give her living expenses 42%

8. You are an able woman. But your boyfriend, who you have been going with since university, doesn't have a job, and he has received not only financial support but also mental support from you. On your birthday, an able man who is working in the same work proposes to you. Who will you choose?

_I will not leave my boyfriend 47%
_I will accept the able man's proposal 53%

9. What is your priority, marrying somebody and having a happy married life, or being a success in your work despite being a spinster?

_I will get married early 32%
_I will get married late 68%

10. Would you choose work or love?

_Work 58%
_Love 42%

Many female Keimyung students had difficulty choosing between two answers. They want to attain their own goal, but they have a complication because of the roles of daughter, wife, and mother. This survey shows that many female students have both side of traditional women and “bad women.”