A Political Star Falls as #MeToo Campaign Builds in South Korea<br />Many South Koreans still work in a "feudal" command-and-compliance work culture where "those who seize power get to believe<br />that they can do whatever they want to," the mass-circulation newspaper JoongAng Ilbo said in an editorial last month on the causes of sexual abuse in South Korea.<br />The politician, Ahn Hee-jung, governor of South Chungcheong Province, announced his resignation and retirement from public life in a Facebook post early Tuesday, hours after one of his secretaries, Kim Ji-eun, claimed in public<br />that Mr. Ahn had raped her four times since last June.<br />that I applaud those who had the courage to tell their stories.<br />He apologetically said that while following the development of the #MeToo movement<br />rocking South Korea, he realized that he must have hurt her, according to Ms. Kim.<br />Ms. Seo’s accusation revealed that even prosecutors, one of the most powerful elite groups in South Korea, could be subject to sexual abuse.<br />Mr. Ahn called Ms. Kim into his office on the night of Feb. 25, looking uneasy,<br />she said in an interview broadcast on the local cable channel JTBC on Monday.
