The National Assembly Research Service Health and Welfare Women’s Team in South Korea published a report about their meeting with ISDP’s Korea Center and Anna Collins-Falk
March 13, 2026: The National Assembly Research Service Health and Welfare Women’s Team in South Korea published a report about meetings with ISDP’s Korea Center and Anna Collins-Falk.
Anna Collins-Falk, a Swedish gender specialist, and visited the National Assembly Research Service Health and Welfare Women’s Team to discuss Sweden’s gender mainstreaming strategy, institutional governance structure, and Horizon Europe Gender Equality Plan (GEP) implementation.
Josephine Ørgaard Rasmussen explained: “Working to connect gender equality discussions in Korea and Sweden, I have identified that the approaches of the two countries are fundamentally different. Sweden first built social consensus over a long period of time and operated its system on top of it, while South Korea first created laws and systems, but the foundation of social consensus to support them is weak. In particular, gender conflicts among the younger generation of Koreans are somewhat worrying. This is not just a problem of generational conflict, but a structural problem that stems from the failure of gender equality to be internalized as a value of society as a whole. The key task seems to be how Korea will change its norms and culture beyond laws and systems.”
Find the report here (in Korean).