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45 ‘(Companies) think female workers are not eligible for higher positions. It doesn’t make sense to them (to hire a woman) because frst they have to raise their kids.’ Song Eun-jung, director of labor policy, Korean Women Workers Association She says she was pushed to quit twice due to severe bullying by seniors and work colleagues and was unfairly dis- missed from another job after not com- plying with her boss’s advances. At one job, she says, her managerial duties extended to contacting call girls for for- eign clients, sitting with them in bars un- til the girls arrived and even translating the conversation until her boss gave her permission to leave. When foreign clients visited her of- fice to discuss a new contract, Ms. C was expected to pour drinks and trans- late for her male boss until he saw fit to change atmospheres. “To make a real nice mood, we had to go to ‘those’ bars.” She describes “those” bars as a hidden side of Korean corporate culture where women can be hired for enter- tainment. “(They) just made me pour the glasses and sometimes I had to trans- late the conversation as well,” she says. “My boss would secretly call me and say, ‘Now I think it’s OK, so you can go.’” “At the very beginning, I cried because I’m a woman and they’re guys. I was ac- tually afraid,” she says. “What if they just started flirting with me, or what if they started attacking me?” Like many other women, she tried to deal with the situa- tion by telling herself to “just suck it up.” On a separate occasion, her male boss sexually harassed her in a bar at an after-work gathering. In full view of her other colleagues, male and female, he kept insisting that they dance by holding her arms “tightly” and constant- ly trying to “grab” and “pull” her against him. She rejected his advances. Soon after the incident, she was dismissed from her job.