[Asia Economy Reporter Donghoon Jung] On the 30th, the National Police Agency held a 'Gender Agenda Forum for Creating a Gender-Equal Police Culture' at the Police Agency Cultural Plaza to establish a discrimination-free organizational culture and raise public awareness of gender-equal police administration and capabilities.
The forum was attended by Jin Gyo-hoon, Deputy Commissioner of the National Police Agency, key bureau and division chiefs of the Police Agency, members of the Police Commission, the Police Agency Human Rights Committee, the Gender Equality Committee, and officials from the Ministry of Justice's Gender Equality Policy Division. About 40 field police officers participated via online broadcast.
The forum was chaired by Pyo Chang-won, Director of the Crime Science Research Institute. Ma Kyung-hee, a research fellow at the Korean Women's Development Institute conducting a commissioned study titled "Analysis and Response Measures to Female Police Hate Discourse" commissioned by the Police Agency, and Professor Chu Ji-hyun of the Department of Sociology at Seoul National University gave presentations.
Research Fellow Ma Kyung-hee presented on the topic "Characteristics and Structure of Female Police Hate Discourse Seen Through Online Communities and Media Coverage," analyzing through big data how distorted female police hate discourse is circulated and spread regardless of reality, and suggested policy alternatives in response.
Professor Chu Ji-hyun presented on the topic "Female Police Hate Discourse and the Future of Police Administrative Services," analyzing how the current female police hate discourse affects police administrative services based on focus group interviews (FGI) with female and male police officers, and proposed countermeasures.
Lee Sang-jik, Associate Research Fellow at the National Assembly Future Institute, and Professor Kim Jin-wook of the Department of Social Welfare at Sogang University commented that the presentations timely and well analyzed how the recent phenomenon of misogyny in Korean society is intertwined with female police hate, and the discussion continued on directions for future research revisions and supplements.
Finally, under the theme "Establishing an Implementation Strategy for a Gender-Equal Organizational Culture," panelists including Kwon Kim Hyun-young, Director of the Women's Reality Research Institute, Professor Kim Jung-gon of the Department of Police Administration at Keimyung University, Choi Jin-hyup, Co-Representative of the Korean Women's Minwoo Association, Sergeant Kang Seung-yeon, and Inspector Park Dong-sung, among other internal and external police experts, participated in a discussion presenting various policy directions for gender-equal policing to move from hate to cooperation, concluding the forum.
Deputy Commissioner Jin Gyo-hoon said, "Concerns are growing over perspectives that focus on the gender of officers involved in recent incidents related to field police officers' responses and link these to gender conflict issues inside and outside the organization," adding, "We expect this forum to help clarify the future vision and direction of gender-equal police administration that field police activities should aim for."
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