Feminist 4B goes viral as US women say 'no' to Trump

No dating, sex, marriage or having children with men: South Korea's extreme feminist movement 4B has gone viral in America and beyond since Donald Trump won the US presidential election.

AFP takes a look at the campaign:

What is 4B? In Korean, 4B stands for the "Four Nos": dating, sex, marriage and childbearing with men.

The movement emerged in the mid-2010s in South Korea, against a backdrop of persistent pay disparity, entrenched gender roles, and an epidemic of cyber sex crimes and sexual violence against women.

Yet it has largely remained a fringe campaign. Adherents like Baek Ga-eul, 33, say it has allowed them to be a "complete human being, not just a being reserved for a man or children".

The movement arose because South Korean women - who do 3.5 times more work in the home per week than men, official data shows - cannot "accept the expectation to perform both paid labour and the majority of household duties", she said.

In addition, women were fed up with "a male culture that pretends to be proper toward women while, behind closed doors... shares sex videos of their girlfriends with their male friends".