{"id":102589,"date":"2016-05-04T08:23:15","date_gmt":"2016-05-04T08:23:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/05\/04\/coolchicksfromhistory-lee-tai-young\/"},"modified":"2018-09-02T08:48:21","modified_gmt":"2018-09-02T08:48:21","slug":"coolchicksfromhistory-lee-tai-young","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/05\/04\/coolchicksfromhistory-lee-tai-young\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-102589 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/05\/04\/coolchicksfromhistory-lee-tai-young\/attachment\/102590\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/tumblr_o6ino6QleJ1qi1raio1_1280-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/tumblr_o6ino6QleJ1qi1raio1_1280-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/tumblr_o6ino6QleJ1qi1raio1_1280-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/tumblr_o6ino6QleJ1qi1raio1_1280-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/tumblr_o6ino6QleJ1qi1raio1_1280-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/tumblr_o6ino6QleJ1qi1raio1_1280-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/tumblr_o6ino6QleJ1qi1raio1_1280.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/coolchicksfromhistory.tumblr.com\/post\/143794947587\" target=\"_blank\">coolchicksfromhistory<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Lee Tai-Young (1914-1988)<\/p>\n<p>Art by Cathy S. (<a href=\"http:\/\/cathybytes.deviantart.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">deviantart<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>In 1952, 38 year old Tai-Young qualified as the first female lawyer in Korea. \u00a0Her path to to law school had been long and difficult. \u00a0Although her parents came from locally prominent families, her father died when Tai-Young was only a year old and her mother struggled to keep the family afloat. \u00a0Despite her economic obstacles, Tai-Young managed to graduate from college and enroll at\u00a0Ewha Womans University. \u00a0At the time, the university only offered degrees in liberal arts, music, and home economics. \u00a0Although she hoped to attend law school, Tai-Young majored in home economics after a professor pointed out that domestic labor kept women from achieving outside the home. \u00a0Like her professor, Tai-Young hoped that home economics could be used to lighten the workload of women.<\/p>\n<p>After graduation, Tai-Young took a job at Pyongyang Women\u2019s Bible College. \u00a0She soon married a Western educated Korean man and the couple eventually had four children. \u00a0During World War II, Tai-Young\u2019s husband was accused of spying for the US and imprisoned by the colonial Japanese government. \u00a0Finding herself the sole supporter of her family, Tai-Young sold handmade quilts to augment her teaching salary. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>After the war, Tai-Young\u2019s husband took on a prominent role in the new government. \u00a0Knowing how hard she worked to feed their family during the war, Tai-Young\u2019s husband encouraged her to fulfill her dream of law school while he supported the family financially. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In 1946, Seoul University opened its doors to female students and Tai-Young passed the law school\u2019s\u00a0entrance exam. \u00a0She was the only female applicant and her home economics degree made the admissions committee pause, but Tai-Young was allowed to enroll as a law student. \u00a0Most Korean law students devoted their entire lives to their studies, but Tai-Young\u2019s attentions were divided. \u00a0She gave birth to her fourth and final child during her studies and although her mother-in-law took over many of the domestic responsibilities, Tai-Young could not disappear into a monastery as many of her male classmates did. \u00a0Despite these challenges, she passed the National Judicial Exam six years later.<\/p>\n<p>In 1957, Tai-Young opened her own practice providing services to poor women. \u00a0The firm was eventually renamed the Korea Legal Aid Center for Family Relations and sees more than 10,000 clients a year. \u00a0At the same time, Tai-Young worked with other activists to protect women\u2019s legal rights and\u00a0helped to established the first family court in Korea.<\/p>\n<p>Conflict with Korean President Park Chung-Hee lead to Tai-Young\u2019s arrest in 1977. \u00a0She was given a suspended sentence of three years and lost her law license for 10 years. \u00a0Although this shortened Tai-Young\u2019s career, it did not undo all that she had accomplished. \u00a0Tai-Young died in 1998.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>coolchicksfromhistory: Lee Tai-Young (1914-1988) Art by Cathy S. (deviantart) In 1952, 38 year old Tai-Young qualified as the first female lawyer in Korea. \u00a0Her path to to law school had been long and difficult. \u00a0Although her parents came from locally prominent families, her father died when Tai-Young was only a year old and her mother &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/05\/04\/coolchicksfromhistory-lee-tai-young\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[44,261,12717,12718,12716,4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102589"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102589"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102591,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102589\/revisions\/102591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}