Vera Wang: I find ageism so old-fashioned bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-… Vera Wang: “I’ve always said that a vodka cocktail, a lot of sleep - and work. Work is the magic elixir.”

Glorious. However I’m replacing the vodka with gin!

(H/T @BBCKarishma )

Oh look! South Korea remains at the bottom of Economist’s glass ceiling index. Again. We spent some time with both sides of the so-called ‘gender-war’ in South Korea during this presidential election to try to find out why feminism has become such a dirty word.

Why misogyny is at the heart of South Korea's presidential elections bbc.co.uk/news/world-asi…

Just a few facts as South Korean presidential candidates discuss feminism.

South Korean women’s average monthly wage was 67.7% of that of men in 2020, which is the biggest gap among OECD countries. On sex crimes, which is a major concern for many young women in particular.

On average over the last 10 years, 99.1% of those convicted of sex crimes were male and 0.9% were female.

Sentences were historically low. 41.4% were given probation and 30.2% a fine.

The lawyer who represented the woman who claims to have been sexually harassed by Seoul Mayor Park Won-soon says her client was subjected to abuse for 4 years. She alleges that he would send pics of him in his underwear at night. (more follows) Mayor Park took his own life last week just hours after she filed the allegations to police.

His funeral is being held this week.

Women’s rights campaigners in Seoul are calling for a full inquiry, if not by the police - by the city office- into the allegations.

My team and I were allowed behind the scenes at South Korea’s main Incheon airport as a flight arrived from the US. Here is a picture thread of the measures being taken to keep arriving passengers safe, and also to prevent further infections of Covid-19 First, everything is regularly disinfected. Including the pens! When passengers arrive they have to fill in a yellow form declaring where they’ve come from and whether they have symptoms.

They will then go through the first temperature check. Just like this...

South Korea's phased return to the classroom starts on Wednesday with High School Seniors (3rd Graders) in Seoul. 7,000 extra staff will be despatched to schools in the city to help with Covid-19 prevention measures. Each school has been checked by an official a number of times. South Korea's prevention measures include thermal imaging and temp checks at the school gate, mask stocks (5 per student) school cafeterias have been fitted with plastic dividers. All students must submit a health check online everyday one week before school starts.

The polls have opened in South Korea for Election Day. Here’s how they’re doing it. First, stand at least a meter apart in the queue, then a temperature check. Then you’re squirted with hand sanitizer and given plastic gloves before you’re allowed inside the voting station. There been a record early turnout across the country in the two days of early polling on Friday and Saturday. The fear of infection doesn’t appear to be keeping people away. More than 11 million people, about 26% of the population, have cast their votes in advance.

As #coronavirus patient numbers spike in Daegu, we talked to an infections disease specialist at the Korea National Medical Centre, Yeonjae Kim. He has some key messages for those around the world handling their own outbreaks.... Dr Kim Yeonjae: “In the past, with our experience with MERS, we would find the patient then quarantine the patient and locate all others the patient came in touch with. But now with numbers of patients so high, we found out in our country that this method does not work...”