The very simple understanding of this problem may not involve patriarchy, matriarchy, feminism, or space aliens. It may just involve Korean women not having the time to cater to historical norms in Korea. Let me explain:
30 years ago, I was a counterintelligence agent in South Korea. Every person in the office was a man. At the time, women in Korea did not work alongside men, unless they were providing stuff like bringing coffee into the office. 30 years later, women can now not only work alongside men, but they can run the office (if the owners are progressive enough to allow it). Today, women can be managers, office workers, mothers and whatever else they choose to be. But asking them to be all of those things is difficult, especially in a cultural environment where no other advantages are provided because we still have a system that is operating on beliefs from decades ago (i.e., no child care and now benefits that might help a new mother alone without a providing father).
My point is that when the west adopted working rights for women, we've had over half a century to make the changes that benefit working women and working mothers. Korea is nowhere near that. Much like the US, it's going to take a bunch of Korean women pushing against the system to reach where we are (and we're still working towards some unwritten goal). The changes they need are going to have to struggle against further decades of men and women who have lived through periods of unrest in workplace politics. We really can't push that by writing articles in the west; that rarely works or helps.
If you want a strong focus on how Korea needs to make its forays into equality going forward, take a look at Japan. Japan went through these same issues, yet still has miles to go. Both Korea and Japan suffer from the same workplace problems, but Japan started dealing with this decades ago.
Sadly, it's an issue they'll need to solve on their own by living within their environment. Change will happen, but it's probably going to take a little time.
