Leiden University Student Repository

Stegers, Shirah (2020)

Sex as taught in classrooms, living rooms and chat rooms; The contradicting influences of sexual conservatism and sexual openness on sexual attitudes and behavior in South Korea

Bachelor thesis | Koreanstudies (BA)

In contemporary South Korea, traditional Neo-Confucian sexual values are significantly present in everyday life, regulated through the education system, parental control and online censorship. However, there is a world of opposing beliefs available to all who know where to look, making modern day South Korean society an unique mix of both sexual conservatism and sexual liberalism. With the help of an elaborate sexuality questionnaire which has not been used with Korean samples before by other scholars, the current study seeks to answer the question of how several forms of sex education are related to the sexual attitudes and behaviors of South Koreans. Subsequently, the current research assesses the effects of growing up surrounded by both sexual conservatism and sexual liberalism, thereby adding to the first steps towards comprehensive South Korean sexuality research.

Sex education

sexual conservatism

sexual liberalism

sexuality questionnaire

South Korea

Author

Stegers, Shirah

Faculty

Faculty of Humanities

Specialisation

Koreastudies

Supervisors

Jang, Se Young

ECTS Credits

10

Language

en