Escape the Corset

[Marcos Rico]

This is a very interesting article but I feel that is more appropriate for High School, maybe for Middle School. Some women in South Korea are rejecting the country’s standard of beauty and pressure to conform. Photographer Jeon Bora is documenting this movement called “Escape the Corset”.

Their society expect South Korean women to have long hair, this group of women are shaving it off or cutting it very short. They are also expected to wear lots of make up, and form fitting dresses, but these brave women are not willing to follow those expectations. They are going against the multi billion dollar beauty industry, that pushes and sell the perfect image that South Korean women are expected to achieve.

Some of the women have been fired from their jobs for being part of this movement, and many experience harassment from their own families.