Homosexuality south korea
South Korea's LGBTQ community confronts crushing headwinds in fight for equality
NBC News spoke with South Korean lawmakers, human rights organizations and dozens of LGBTQ South Koreans in three of the country’s largest cities: Seoul, Daegu and Busan. Most say a bill that would outlaw discrimination against all minority groups — including the LGBTQ community — is the critical first step toward legal equality.
In , former President Roh Moo-hyun’s administration helped draft South Korea’s first comprehensive nondiscrimination bill, but conservative groups favor the Congressional Missionary Coalition immediately objected to its inclusion of “sexual orientation.” One petition sent to the Ministry of Justice prophesied, without any evidence, that “homosexuals will try to seduce everyone” if the bill were to become law.
Lawmakers have since proposed eight comprehensive nondiscrimination bills, but the country’s conservative president and legislators, as well as its powerful Christian lobbies, all but doom such bills in the Assembly, even though a majority of the public (57%) su
Homosexuality in South Korea
Written by Dylan Gueffier
Translated by Julie Penverne
On June 29, , the Justice Party, a progressive party in South Korea, once again proposed to the Gukhoe (South Korean National Assembly) a law to prohibit all forms of discrimination, including sexual harassment. This rule would notably address discrimination against homosexual people. According to the law, any offender could face a fine of 10 million won (about €, September ) or one year in prison.
It is not the first moment this kind of regulation has been proposed: it has already been introduced 6 times since Unfortunately, attempts always end up failing, encountering fierce contradiction from conservatives reflecting a rejection of homosexuality within South Korean society.
Homosexuaity in South Korea
In South Korea, it is not illegal to be gay or to have a relationship with a person of the same sex, except in the military. However, same-sex marriage is still not allowed, and was even rejected institutionally in when the South Korean Supreme Court reiterate
Written by: Clara Delhaye
Translated by: Lou Szabo
At the end of February , the Seoul High Court handed down a landmark ruling on marriage for all. The court established that same-sex couples should enjoy the same health insurance rights as heterosexual couples. In this case, two men, having had a symbolic marriage, can profit from each other’s health insurance scheme. According to the court, if this is not the case it constitutes discrimination based on sexual orientation. However, the national health insurance fund is appealing to the Supreme Court, as it considers that it has not breached the concept of equality. How does the issue of marriage and same-sex relationships display the growing allocate in South Korea?
The legal and political lack of interest regarding the issue of marriage for all in South Korea
In South Korea, same-gender relations are not criminalized, i.e., homosexuality is not punished. However, there is one exception: according to article of the Korean Military Code, “Any person who engages in anal intercourse (…) or any other indecent execute is liable t
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