{"id":8487,"date":"2009-04-16T07:04:46","date_gmt":"2009-04-16T12:04:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=8487"},"modified":"2010-07-02T22:39:05","modified_gmt":"2010-07-03T03:39:05","slug":"south-korean-parking-spots-for-women-only","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2009\/04\/16\/south-korean-parking-spots-for-women-only\/","title":{"rendered":"Parking Spots for Women Only"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chris S. sent in a link to a post at Korea Beat<\/a> about a town in South Korea that now has parking spots designated for women only. My first thought was that maybe they were for pregnant women–when I lived in Utah I’d sometimes see parking spots that were reserved for expectant mothers. But no. These are just for women in general. Here’s a photo:<\/p>\n

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Part of the English translation of the original article, from Korea Beat:<\/p>\n

The \u201cpink lines\u201d, painted pink, are 2.5 meters wide rather than the standard 2.3, offering aid to women drivers unskilled at parking.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This in a city chosen by a South Korean official as “the first woman-friendly city.”<\/p>\n

I wonder if there’s any evidence that female drivers in South Korea are involved in more accidents or have a harder time parking than men. What, exactly, led to this? I don’t know a ton about South Korean culture; for those of you who do, is there a good reason we’d expect women to be less skilled at driving\/parking than men? Are women generally discouraged from driving or something? Insights will be greatly appreciated.<\/p>\n

NEW! (July ’10):<\/strong><\/span> Majd Al-Shihabi<\/a> sent us a photo of similar parking spaces in Croatia. They are next to the parking spaces for those with disabilities and are about 50% wider than standard spaces:<\/p>\n

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Chris S. sent in a link to a post at Korea Beat about a town in South Korea that now has parking spots designated for women only. My first thought was that maybe they were for pregnant women–when I lived in Utah I’d sometimes see parking spots that were reserved for expectant mothers. But no. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[373,55,2096,8045,1788,221],"class_list":["post-8487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-color","tag-gender","tag-gender-femininity","tag-nation-croatia","tag-nation-south-korea","tag-cars"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8487"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25004,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8487\/revisions\/25004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}