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On the evening of April 6, 2021, when the last campaign of the Seoul Mayor’s by-election was held, young voters listen to Candidate Se-hoon Oh’s speech on the streets of Sinchon-dong, Seodaemun-gu, Seoul. Senior Reporter Jinsoo Kim

‘This man’ (a man in his 20s), Taryeong swept Yeouido again. This re-election is “a result of the lack of approval ratings from the Democratic Party of all ages and regions, not a specific generation” (Jeong Han-ul, an expert on public opinion analysis at Korea Research), but the passport seems to focus on’male in her 20s’. Kim Nam-guk, a member of the Democratic Party of Korea, joined the Namcho online community to listen to the bitter voices of young men and eventually apologized after being’retired’. At an election review meeting in the party, a male lawmaker said, “It is feminism that we lost support from men in their twenties in the April 7 re-election.” Other “some lawmakers” also argued that “the loss of the election is due to the overflow of feminism.” There was also a report saying that they accept as orthodoxy.” (April 14) To say the conclusion from the conclusion, their analysis was wrong. Only two numbers, ‘72.5%’ (the percentage of males aged 18 to 29 who selected Se-hoon Oh, based on the exit survey of three terrestrial broadcasters) and ‘15.1%’ (the percentage of women of the same age who selected’other parties’), were compared as absolute values. It is an error that occurred. Rather, political and sociologists analyze that “the election frenzy is the departure of women in their twenties who were consistent and solid supporters of the current government.” It is pointed out that the Democratic Party is trying to dilute its incompetence by scapegoating’feminism’ and’gender equality policy’ instead of self-sufficiently, and seeking out voters from outside.

From June 2017, the early days of the Moon Jae-in administration’s inauguration, to March 2021, just before the re-election, the Moon Jae-in government’s government approval ratings and party approval ratings surveyed by the Gallup Korea Research Institute in a time series, along with the government, were 2030 women. The government approval rate was 94% (female in 20s) and 87% (male in 20s) in June 2017, which was the beginning of its inauguration, but both men and women were high, but in January 2018, the approval rate for men in their 20s fell to 68% in half a year. The approval rate for men in their twenties continued to decline after falling below the 50% range in November of the same year. The lowest approval rating came out in January and February 2021, when President Moon Jae-in first apologized for the real estate policy, all at 18%. On the other hand, the decline in the approval rating of women in their twenties has been noticeably slow. They consistently showed government approval ratings, which are about 20 percentage points higher on average compared to men in their twenties. This approval rating was below 50% for the first time in October 2020. Commissioner Han-ul Jeong said, “The approval rating of men in their 20s was already missing (before the election). This is why the opposition parties showed a balanced state in the early days of the election, and women in their twenties were largely displaced from being focused on the opposition party as the balance collapsed.” In fact, this election is evaluated as “an election in which the confrontational front between the Democratic Party and the feminist was highlighted” (Professor Shin Kyung-ah, Hallym University). First of all, both Seoul and Busan were by-elections due to sexual violence by the former mayor. Three female lawmakers who insisted on the word “victim complainant” took key positions in Park Young-sun’s camp and resigned only after the victim’s press conference. Former president Lim Jong-suk and Rep. Woo Sang-ho made secondary remarks about the abuse. There was also a consensus that Park Young-sun was a woman, but she was not a’feminist candidate’. He belatedly apologized to the victim through the Social Network Service (SNS) after Park Won-soon, former mayor of Seoul City, gave a press conference, and said, “A story in the form of emphasizing that he is a’mother’ in the publication and that he can play a good caring role” (Female It was criticized for reinforcing gender stereotypes by doing A).

Professor Shin-ah said, “(Finding the cause of election defeat in feminism) is to use the experience of frustration and anger as a politics of resentment. Political parties such as this are bound to fall. Political parties should not give up political correctness, but the downhill was a planned procedure since (the Democratic Party) already revised the party constitution and party rules and issued a candidate,” he criticized. On April 15, Yongin City Councilman Jeong Han-do, the Democratic Party’s Democratic Party, registered as a candidate for the party’s presidential election and said, “We need to change the stance of the women’s preferential policy”, but repeated empty rhetoric without specifying what the policy was. Professor Shin added, “It is not prioritizing reform within the party, but targeting women in their twenties and feminism is a lazy analysis indulged in mannerism.” Of course, it is undeniable that the gender issue was the topic of the Moon Jae-in administration actively raising the public sphere. This is because socially heavy agendas such as Me too, illegal filming, and the N-bang case continued to pour out. It is also supported by the fact that 39 out of 98 petitions (39.8%) that received government responses with more than 200,000 consents from the Blue House National Petition Bulletin Board (as of July 2019) were petitions related to gender issues. However, it wasn’t just the gender issue at the’inflection point’ where the government approval ratings declined. In September 2018 (59% for men in their 20s and 69% for women), Gallup Korea said, “For the first time in one year and four months after President Moon took office, the gap in positive and negative evaluations has decreased to within 10 percentage points. After the local elections, the’lack of solving the economy/people’s livelihood problem’ continues to account for around 40% of the reasons behind the local election, and it seems that the phenomenon appeared as a result of intensifying controversy over minimum wage, job and income-led growth, and instability in the real estate market.” At that time, the government announced ‘9·13 housing market stabilization measures’. During the’motherland crisis’ (September 2019), the national approval rating for people in their twenties (31% for men and 52% for women) fell to the lowest level that year. Incheon International Airport Corporation’s conversion to full-time jobs (June 2020, 37% men, 60% women) and the ‘2021 President Moon Jae-in New Year’ (January 2021, 18% men, 37% women) apologizing for real estate problems Fell together. Looking more closely at each gender, the approval rating of women in their twenties dropped to 50% starting from the’Seoul Mayor Sexual Violence Case’ (July 2020, 51%). For men in their twenties, there are more diverse inflection points. Government regulation of cryptocurrency (January 2018, 68%), controversy with a single South-North female ice hockey team (February 2018, 61%), protests against illegal shooting (July 2018, 64%), assault in Isu Station, Seoul (November 2018, 49%), controversy over the preferential treatment of the son of former Justice Minister Chu Miae (September 2020, 27%). It is noticeable that the time when the incident called’gender conflict’ and the time when the approval rating declined partially overlapped.

On the afternoon of June 9, 2018, a scene of the “second condemnation of illegal shooting partiality investigation” held by the following cafe women’s group “Inconvenient Courage” near Hyehwa Station on Subway Line 4 in Jongno-gu, Seoul. By Hankyoreh, Seon Dam-eun, staff reporter

Gallup Korea was wary of overinterpretation. It was in November 2018 that the government approval rating of men in their twenties continued to fall, showing a difference of more than 20 percentage points from women in their twenties. In December, one month later, Gallup Korea said, “If you look at the affirmation rate for the recent presidential duties, the gender gap is particularly large among those in their twenties. Some pointed to gender issues as the biggest cause of this gap, but since the inauguration of President Moon, (this issue) has rarely been directly mentioned in the reasons for job evaluation.” In addition, he said, “men in their twenties are generally more negative than women in their twenties in the evaluation of the current government’s policy toward North Korea, diplomacy, economy, and employment, as well as the presidential duties.” Nevertheless, the government and the ruling party repeated’misjudgments’ regarding gender issues and approval ratings. Some analyzes say that men in their twenties were trapped in optical illusions or prejudices even though they were not’progressive’ or’democratic supporters’ in the first place. Choi Seong-yong, the young director of’Dream Changing the World’, said, “In the Gallup Korea presidential candidate support survey conducted on May 7-8, 2017, just before the 19th presidential election, 50% of women in their 20s and 29% of men voted for’Moon Jae-in. I am willing to do it.’ This shows that men in their twenties already supported the candidate Moon Jae-in by 20 percentage points less than women in their twenties before the regime was launched.” Therefore, the “expected effect of the newly launched regime” was removed and “a comparison of 41% of the approval rates of men in their 20s in December 2018 based on the approval rate just before the presidential election, the approval rate of the Democratic Party decreased more than other age and gender groups. It’s hard to say that I did it.” He sees, “The problem with the decline in the approval ratings of men in their 20s is that their 20s (especially men) should be on the side of democracy and progress, so it’s natural for those in their 20s to stand on the side of the democratic camp.” It is a behavior of unilaterally projecting it, believing that the 20s will have the same appearance as the 586 generations who committed themselves to the democratization movement. Director Choi believes that this is what 586 generations want to see through the votes of men in their twenties. In this process, the various differences of youth are overlooked and the subjectivity of their twenties is eliminated. This trend is particularly problematic in that “feminism leads to an easy analysis that the cause of men in their twenties disengages from the support ranks, and it cleverly erases the existence of women as political subjects.” In fact, the analysis that the decline in the approval rating of’this man’ is in the government’s gender equality policy or feminism has failed once in a while. Either held a discussion meeting to focus on the voice of’this man’ (January 2019, former Congressman Changwon Citation), or said, “After democratization, women in their twenties become a progressive group of new’collective selfishness’ emotions armed with values ​​such as individualism and feminism. There was a sudden rise” (February 2019, the document’Analysis of factors for declining approval ratings for men in their 20s and countermeasures’ documented by the Presidential Policy Planning Committee), but rather, the government approval rate of men in their 20s fell further down to the 30% level. Stayed on Rather, it was repeated that Democratic Party lawmakers stepped up and dismissed the voters in their 20s and gave them the cause of the election defeat. Regarding the decline in the approval rating of men in their twenties, “I have a question whether they received education properly” (Rep. Seol Hoon, February 2019) or “I have instilled hostility in the children through anti-communist education reminiscent of Park Chung-hee’s era in the 60s and 70s. ”(Rep. Hong Ik-pyo, February 2019) came out one after another. Candidate Park Young-sun was no different. When asked about the reason why the 20s’ approval rating was low during the March 26, 2021 election campaign, he replied, “In the case of the 20s, the experience of the past is not lower than that of the 40s and 50s,” raising controversy.

Looking at the results of a study on gender equality consciousness of’males in their 20s’, it is even more difficult to come to the conclusion that ‘72.5% (males in their 20s) turned because of feminism’. Based on the’Citizen Consciousness Survey Data’ conducted in 2017 (Korea Research Institute for Democracy and Korea Research), a thesis of’Reviewing the phenomenon of men in their 20s’ comparing the ideological tendencies and gender consciousness of 1012 adult men and women (20s to 40s) nationwide ( Choi Jong-suk, 2020) said, “The gender equality consciousness of men in their 20s is higher or similar to that of men in their 30s and 40s. It is difficult to say that the gender equality consciousness gap between men and women in their twenties is also larger than that of men and women of other generations,” he said. “If the gender problem in Korean society is serious, we should approach the problem of the previous generation, not only in their 20s.” Rather, the study said, “It is necessary to pay attention to why men in their 20s became reluctant to the word’feminism’.” “It is necessary to look back on whether there is any fault in the media that has been ignoring the various determinations of feminism and unconditionally reported that’feminism is a problem’, and whether education, publicity, and policies on feminism have been distorted or insufficient” (Kim Soo-ah, 2018). . The results of the analysis based on the Korean General Social Survey from 2003 to 2018 by Professor Sun-kyung Park (Politics) of Incheon National University are similar. “Within the youth generation, the ideology between women and men did not differ significantly.” “Young women were the strongest objections to the traditional gender role in the family, but in the patriarchal culture, the entire youth group had negative thoughts without gender differences. ” He also said, “We have confirmed that the gender gap within the youth generation raised by some studies is exaggerated,” he said. “There are differences in attitudes toward some policy issues, but this did not give a significant difference in the formation of ideology.” Will the approval ratings in their twenties be similar in the presidential election a year later? At least “obviously, the Democratic Party has not been able to competently cope with the life of a young man. There is no sensibility to preoccupy youth issues or to sense (agenda)” (Park Sung-min, former Democratic Party Supreme Council Member). Kwon Kim Hyun-young, head of the Women’s Reality Research Institute, said, “Even the most progressive youth group turned around during the motherland crisis, and without realizing it, the Democratic Party made a statement that it would even blow away a’house rabbit’ (a woman in her 20s). When looking at the process of discussing the severe disaster corporate punishment law, the Democratic Party has never been interested in the life of a real youth like the courier and delivery workers, and Kim Gun-gun of Guui Station in Seoul,” he criticized. Taryeong of’this man’ is likely to hover in the air again this time. “I dream of getting a job in my twenties (without going over my 30s)” (‘Peach’, a man in my twenties), and “It is difficult to have a stable housing enough to have to move in Seoul four times in six years” (a woman in her twenties). A sincere approach to Korea and “the attitude that the Democratic Party now takes toward’this man’ is to admit that the anti-feminist strategy of the people’s power is meaningful and support them” (Kwon Soo-hyun, CEO of Gender Politics Research Institute, Se-yeon Yeo) does not follow. That’s what I said. By Park Da-hae, staff reporter