Help for victims of sexual violence

If you have experienced sexual violence(sexual harassment, intimate partner violence), you can get help from Center for Gender Equity.

※ HOT line(24h): Seoul Crisis Intervention Center Tel. 02-3672-0365 Fax.02-3672-0368 (English)

Danuri Helpline Tel. 1577-1366 / www.liveinkorea.kr

(Danuri Helpline: English, Chinese, Vietnamese, Tagalog (Filipino), Khmer (Cambodian), Mongolian, Russian, Japanese, Thai, Lao, Uzbek and Nepali language)

University Policy

A. Yonsei University defines sexual harassment: “Unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, sexual misconduct, sexual violations, and other visual, verbal or physical conduct of a sexual harassment.

⊙ The term ‘sexual violence’ as used herein shall be defined as any physical, verbal, and psychological abuse which infringes on one’s sexual self-determination and personal rights.

⊙ ‘Sexual violence’ includes situations where faculty, staff or students partake in verbal and/or other forms of abuse to cause a person to feel sexually humiliated or revolted; or, using their position and authority to put a person at an disadvantage either in the classroom or in employment for refusing to comply to their demands.

B. Applicability: to all those who are subject to the school statutes of Yonsei University, and where the assailant and/or the victim in a sexual violence involves faculty members (including part-time instructors), staff and other third-party members who are recognized as being within the domain of university statutes.

C. Procedures

The center may intervene in the reported cases and draw resonable agreement between both parties