NOTES FROM 9TAILEDVIXEN’S 1ST WEEK BACK AT WORK AFTER THE HOLIDAYS:
1. LIFE NOTES
(a) The Chinese language/Lunar New Yr is coming so I have been doing festive buying (all the standard treats/items for present luggage) and have resumed festive baking after simply a few weeks of Baking Downtime after Christmas. It looks like a neverending pageant interval at any time when the Lunar New Yr kicks off in January.
(b)>/b> Aerial Yoga continues to go nicely besides I am nonetheless hit-and-miss with finishing flows – I’d completely nail a move for two courses working, then get caught midway studying one other move. Hopefully I am going to have the ability to full flows EVERY CLASS by the tip of 2025.
. THIS WEEK IN KOREAN WOMEN’S NEWS:
(a) Korea’s feminine employment price low amongst OECD nations: report
Korea’s employment and labor indicators for ladies have remained low amongst members of the Group for Financial Cooperation and Improvement (OECD) over the previous 20 years due partly to the shortage of ample authorities assist and ample jobs, a report confirmed Monday.
In accordance with the evaluation report by the Federation of Korean Industries (FKI) on employment and labor of ladies aged 15-64 in 38 OECD international locations, the employment price and labor participation price of Korean ladies got here to 61.4 % and 63.1 %, respectively, in 2023.
The FKI stated Korea ranked thirty first amongst OECD nations in each classes.
https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/nation/2025/01/113_389770.html
(b) UN calls for North Korea make clear if it executed two ladies repatriated from China
U.N. human rights specialists have known as on the North Korean authorities to make clear whether or not it executed two ladies forcibly repatriated from China, in addition to reported sentences of life imprisonment for 9 different ladies.
In a letter dated Nov. 6 and posted on-line Sunday, seven U.N. particular rapporteurs expressed “grave concern” over undisclosed reviews that 11 ladies have been tried in Aug. 2024 in North Hamgyong Province on prices of “working grownup leisure venues, prostitution and ‘insulting the dignity of individuals.’”
Two of the ladies, aged 43 and 39, have been reportedly sentenced to dying and executed the identical day, whereas the opposite 9 obtained life sentences, in keeping with the letter. “The destiny and whereabouts” of the 9 ladies sentenced to life in jail “will not be identified,” it states.