NOTES FROM 9TAILEDVIXEN’S 3RD WEEK OF SEPTEMBER 2024
1. THIS WEEK IN LIFE
This has been a tough week
– a pal died from most cancers after battling it for over a yr
– one other pal lastly opened as much as inform all of us that the boyfriend that she left was an abusive gaslighting POS
– work is burying me as my anti-violence towards girls nonprofit heads prepares for Home Violence Consciousness Month.
I am now on my 3-day Psychological Well being weekend to simply decompress and get some equilibrium again and course of some large emotions.
In happier information:
– I managed to finish 3/4s of a full Aerial Yoga circulation for the primary time – after practicising for about 7 months, I am lastly getting there!
– I baked a Double Chocolate Buttermilk cake and it got here out DELICIOUS!
2. THIS WEEK IN KOREAN WOMEN’S NEWS
(A) North Korea executes 2 girls who fled and have been forcibly repatriated from China
North Korea has executed two girls who had been forcibly repatriated from China for serving to different North Koreans in China escape to South Korea, a human rights group informed Radio Free Asia.
Charged with human trafficking, a 39-year-old girl surnamed Ri and a 43-year-old surnamed Kang have been executed Aug. 31 after a public trial within the northeastern port metropolis of Chongjin, in accordance with Jang Se-yul, head of Gyeore’eol Unification Solidarity, based mostly in Seoul.
9 different girls have been sentenced to life in jail on the identical fees.
“These two girls have been executed as a result of that they had despatched North Korean escapees from China to their enemy nation, South Korea,” Jang informed RFA Korean.
(B) From spy cams to deepfake porn: fury in South Korea as girls focused once more
South Korea holds the unenviable title of the nation most focused by deepfake pornography. Its feminine singers and actors represent 53% of the people featured in deepfakes worldwide, in accordance with a 2023 report by Safety Hero, a US startup targeted on id theft safety.
A number of years after South Korea made worldwide headlines with its molka drawback, the federal government is once more underneath strain to stamp out this wave of on-line intercourse crimes. A big protest is scheduled to be held in Seoul on 21 September.