Yoo Su-jin, a daughter of the former Minister of Health and Welfare Rhyu Si-min, joined the battle with radical feminist network Megalian against misogyny.

She publicly announced Sunday that “I am on the same side of Megalian,” which heated up debate online.

Yoo pointed out what Korean feminists were trying to achieve in the group.

“What Megalians do,” she wrote, “is swap the gender roles and send the comments right on back to men, what they have been doing against women on the Internet.”

“If they call us names, we do exactly the same as they do,” she added.

Her posting came after voiceover actress Kim Ja-yeon was let go by her employer Nexon, a game company, on July 25 after she uploaded a selfie on Twitter wearing a sweatshirt that read, “Girls do not need a prince.” The slogan indicates that she supports the online feminist group.

Megalian, reacted furiously by holding a rally in front of Nexon’s head office in Pangyo, Gyeonggi Province on July 25. Roughly 100 members of the feminist group gathered together from 10 a.m. to protest against the game giant that it “unfairly fired the voice actress” just for standing up for women. 

Meanwhile, Lezhin Entertainment, a major player in Korea‘s e-comics industry, announced Monday that the company requested its comics writers refrain from posting on SNS regarding the issue. This announcement was due to a barrage of full refund requests by its subscribers who took offense by the writers seemingly supporting the radical feminist group.

By Bak Se-hwan (sh@heraldcorp.com)