Tag: South Korea
Over 150,000 LGBTQ+ individuals and their allies marched in the Pride Parade in South Korea in 2024, defying a second consecutive year of a ban imposed by authorities.
While more than 35 countries, including Thailand, are moving towards the legalisation of same-sex marriage, South Korea has yet to recognise same-sex...
Tensions escalated as the organisers of the annual Daegu Queer Culture Festival in South Korea faced opposition from police and government workers over allegations of illegal road occupation.
On Saturday morning, approximately 500 government officials gathered in Dongseongno, the city's shopping district, to prevent the festival organisers from setting...
South Korea's largest LGBTQ pride celebration, which usually takes place in Seoul Plaza, has been denied access to the venue, which will host a Christian youth concert instead.
Usually drawing crowds of colourful performers and participants in rainbow attire, organisers of the Seoul Queer Culture Festival (SQCF) say the decision was...
Two men have been sentenced for consensual sex by a military court in South Korea that insists the consensual activity “bordered on rape.”
According to reports from The Guardian, the two men were given a six-month suspended prison sentence, after being found guilty of “indecency”.
Despite same-sex sexual activity being legal...
Homophobia is on the rise in South Korea thanks to COVID 19.
Backlash in South Korea against the country’s gay community is prompting fears LGBT people will stop being tested for COVID 19 out of fear of being outed.
The backlash began after a number of cases were linked to...
Amnesty International is urging the South Korean military to remove its outdated and backwards ban on consensual same-sex sexual activity between members of its Armed Forces.
The ban which has remained in place despite homosexuality being legal in South Korea is inforced by Article 92-6 of the nation's Military Criminal...
