“Escape the Corset”: How Social Media Shaped Feminist Consciousness, Discourse, and Activism in South Korea
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“Escape the Corset”: How Social Media Shaped Feminist Consciousness, Discourse, and Activism in South Korea

Zhiyi Chen 1*
1 UCL
*Corresponding author: 803926@qq.com
Published on 19 November 2025
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Abstract

Through the Escape the Corset Movement (ECM), the essay explores the impact of social media on feminist consciousness, discourse, and activism in South Korea. Founded in 2016 and prominent nationwide in 2018, ECM urged women to discard the patriarchal model of beauty and reassert bodily control by cutting their hair, not wearing makeup, and throwing away beauty products. Drawing on concepts from digital activism and feminist media studies, the paper maps the historical transition from conventional to digital media in Korean feminist movements and reveals how online platforms changed modes of participation and communication. With hashtags like #EscapeTheCorset, social media operated as a public sphere where stories, community, and the development of collective identity could take place. The text analyzes how digital narratives and graphical confrontations as forms of protest challenged Confucian gender norms and re-considered femininity in modern Korean culture. Finally, the paper demonstrates how ECM’s discourse played a role in economic and cultural resistance, with efforts to resist the pink tax as well as the #Women_ShortCut_Campaign, demonstrating social media’s potential to reproduce and sustain activism. However, the study does emphasize critical constraints: platform hierarchies, online harassment influenced by gender, and entrenched patriarchal structures that inhibit transformational initiatives. ECM embodies, in the end, the emancipatory and structural possibilities of digital feminism, exposing how social media can become a force behind social change, but also remain rooted in unequal power relations.

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Digital Feminism, Social Media Activism, Beauty Ideals, South Korea

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Chen,Z. (2025). “Escape the Corset”: How Social Media Shaped Feminist Consciousness, Discourse, and Activism in South Korea. Lecture Notes in Education Psychology and Public Media,122,1-10.

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[21]. Yun, J. Y. (2022). Escaping the corset: Rage as a force of resistance and creation in the Korean feminist movement. Hypatia, 37(2), pp. 257-275.

[22]. Haas, Benjamin. (2018). Escape the corset: South Korean women rebel against strict beauty standards. The Guardian, October 26. [Online]. Available at: https: //www.theguardian.com/world/2018/oct/26/escape-the-corset-south-korean-women-rebel-against-strict-beauty-standards. [Accessed: 26 June 2025]

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[45]. Leong, C., Pan, S. L., Bahri, S., & Fauzi, A. (2019). Social media empowerment in social movements: power activation and power accrual in digital activism. European Journal of Information Systems, 28(2), pp. 173-204.

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[51]. Baek, H., Lee, S., & Kim, S. (2021). Are female users equally active? An empirical study of the gender imbalance in Korean online news commenting. Telematics and Informatics, 62, 101635.

[52]. Baruna, Y. A. P., & Lestari, C. S. N. (2022). Patriarchy Behind Kim Ji-Young, Born 1982: A Biographical Approach. LiNGUA, 17(2).

[53]. Scott, M.C., (2008). Beauty in the Eye of Popular Culture: Popular Culture and the Obsession with Female Image: The Beauty Ritual.

[54]. Milestone, K. and Meyer, A., (2020). Gender and popular culture. John Wiley & Sons.

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Chen,Z. (2025). “Escape the Corset”: How Social Media Shaped Feminist Consciousness, Discourse, and Activism in South Korea. Lecture Notes in Education Psychology and Public Media,122,1-10.

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