an option between being a housewife or working outside of the house. The women who have chosen to work due to the changes in government and legislation had and still have major challenges to face in the workforce. Major companies in South Korea began to change their hiring practices such as Samsung which was one of the first major companies to do so. In 1997 Samsung removed gender discrimination in recruitment and by 2012 had hired 56,000 women employees. However, before 1997 some women did manage to work at Samsung, and there was discrimination in the patriarchally-ran company. Most of the jobs of the woman who worked at Samsung were low-level workers. When the company tried to offer higher positions to women, many of the top male executives took advantage of the women and gave them menial chores, not unlike how some husbands may expect of their wives at home. However, this all began to change in 1994 when an open personnel reform from Samsung’s chairman, forced top executives to treat and pay men and women equally. Samsung’s newest goal is increasing the percentage of female top executives from 2 percent to 10 percent by 2020. Still today however in South Korea, women are being discriminated against especially in work environments. Korean Confucian art Korean Confucian art and philosophy had great and deep effects on the Korean culture. Confucianism has also inspired experimental art collective in 1960s–70s Korea, such as The Fourth Group. See also Article 809 of the Korean Civil Code Korean culture Korean philosophy Korean Taoism Munmyo Religion in Korea Seonbi Silhak References Further reading Handbook of Korea; Korean Overseas Information Service, 2003; pgs Lee, Ki-baik; A New History of Korea; Harvard University Press,1984; pgs 130–135 Lee, Ki-baik; A New History of Korea; Harvard University Press,1984; pgs 163–166 MacArthur, Meher; Confucius: A Throneless King; Pegasus Books, 2011; pgs 163–165 Kimm, He-young; Philosophy of Masters; Andrew Jackson College Press, 2001; pgs 52–58 Palais, James B.; Confucian Statecraft and Korean Institutions; University of Washington Press, 1995 External links Introduction and translation of Jeong and Gihwa's texts Religion in Korea Scholastic Confucianism in Korea