[Breaking] Ministry of Gender Equality and Family "Emergency Meeting of the Women’s Violence Prevention Committee"

Minister of Gender Equality and Family Lee Jeong-ok. / Photo by Hyunmin Kim kimhyun81@

[Asia Economy Reporter Hyunju Lee] The Ministry of Gender Equality and Family will hold an emergency Women's Violence Prevention Committee meeting on the 17th.

A ministry official said on the 16th, "We plan to hold the Women's Violence Prevention Committee to hear the opinions of the members," adding, "We are currently coordinating the final schedule with the members."

The Women's Violence Prevention Committee is an organization that deliberates and coordinates important matters related to policies for preventing violence against women. It is chaired by the Minister of Gender Equality and Family and consists of about 30 government and civilian members. Government members include vice ministers and vice minister-level officials from the Ministry of Economy and Finance, Ministry of Education, Ministry of Science and ICT, Ministry of Justice, Ministry of National Defense, Ministry of the Interior and Safety, Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, Ministry of Employment and Labor, Ministry of Gender Equality and Family, Korea Communications Commission, Office for Government Policy Coordination, Ministry of Personnel Management, Supreme Prosecutors' Office, and National Police Agency. Civilian members include Kim Min-moonjung, co-representative of the Korean Women's Associations United, Lee Soo-jung, professor at Kyonggi University, and Jung Eun-ja, co-representative of the National Sexual Violence Counseling Center Council.

This committee meeting is expected to discuss related policies in light of the death of the late Park Won-soon, former mayor of Seoul. A ministry official explained, "There is a manual for responding to sexual violence against heads of public institutions, but there is no content regarding heads of local governments, so we plan to conduct related discussions to see if there are any additional matters that need to be supplemented."

The Women's Violence Prevention Committee has met twice this year. The first meeting finalized the basic plan for women's violence prevention policies and deliberated on the implementation plan accordingly.

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