Lee Tai-young, spelled Yi T'ai Yong, was Korea's first female lawyer [other sources refer to her as the first female lawyer in South Korea].
15 Facts About Lee Tai-young
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Lee Tai-young was the founder of the country's first legal aide centre.
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Lee Tai-young fought for women's rights all through her career.
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Lee Tai-young eventually became a judge later in her legal career.
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Lee Tai-young was born on 10 August 1914 in Pukjin, Unsan County, Korea, Empire of Japan.
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Lee Tai-young's father was a gold miner; her mother was named Kim Heung-Won.
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Lee Tai-young attended Ewha Womans University, graduating with a bachelor's degree in home economics before marrying the Methodist minister, Yil Hyung Chyung, in 1936.
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Lee Tai-young was suspected of being a spy for the United States in the 1940s and was imprisoned as "anti-Japanese".
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Lee Tai-young later became the Minister of Foreign Affairs of South Korea.
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Lee Tai-young lived in a patriarchal society and she had four children, three daughters and a son.
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Lee Tai-young then had to work as a school teacher and radio singer, and took in sewing and washing in the early 1940s to maintain her family.
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Lee Tai-young wrote 15 books on issues concerning women and her first book published in 1957 was titled Divorce System in Korea.
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Lee Tai-young's other notable books are The Woman of North Korea and Born a Woman.
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Lee Tai-young translated Eleanor Roosevelt's book On My Own into the Korean language.
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Lee Tai-young published her memoirs in 1984 under the title Dipping the Han River out with a Gourd.