Segye Ilbo reporter Kim Ye-jin was having dinner on Sep. 14 with fellow journalists covering the foreign ministry. A high-ranking ministry official was also present. This wasn’t unusual; it’s typical for journalists reporting on government ministries to dine with officials. But unusually, Kim wrote about the dinner and the anonymous official, in an article on Segye Ilbo labelled as “exclusive”: “Out of the blue, he said, ‘Women are inferior…. In my time, women didn’t even go to school because they weren’t good at academics. How did they turn the table?'”
