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Kim Syok’osu, a Korean woman that converted to Christianity, said “We Choson women lived under the oppression of men for thousands of years without having our own names. . . . For fifty years, I lived without a name” What was going on in Choson Korea? Did women really not have names?

by /u/nowlan101 in /r/AskHistorians

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