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South Korea Pride festival blocked in favour of Christian group: “We were unfairly denied”

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South Korea’s biggest LGBTQ+ Pride festival has been blocked in favour of a Christian youth concert. Since 2000, local LGBTQ+ residents have celebrated Pride season at the annual Seoul Queer Culture Festival (SQCF). During the festival, which takes place over two weeks, attendees are treated to various events and parties, including the Korea Queer Film Festival and a huge Pride parade. While SQCF has been a staple in Seoul for over 20 years, the event was recently hit with a significant roadblock ahead of its 2023 festival. On 3 May,…

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South Korean court recognises same-sex couple rights for historic first time

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A South Korean court has allowed same-sex couples to receive the same rights, under the national health service, as heterosexual couples. The landmark ruling, which occurred on Tuesday (21 February), marks South Korea’s recognition of social benefits for same-sex couples. This decision rewrites a previous ruling, which occurred in January 2022, that rejected a gay couple’s attempt to obtain shared health benefits. In 2021, plaintiff So Seong-wook sued the National Health Insurance Service after the health agency revoked his status as a “spousal dependent” to his same-sex partner Kim Yong-min,…

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South Korea’s Supreme Court overturns convictions of soldiers for gay sex

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South Korea’s Supreme Court overturned the convictions of two soldiers who had been charged with having consensual sex while off their base. The landmark ruling, which was issued on 21 April, stated that the country’s decades-old ban on homosexual activities should not apply to gay sex outside of a military setting. The Military Criminal Act states that those engaging in “anal intercourse or other indecent acts” should face up to two years in prison, which has previously been used to punish military personnel engaging in consensual gay sex. The two…

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Korean court throws out gay couple’s lawsuit regarding shared healthcare

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In a blow to LGBTQ+ rights, a South Korean gay couple lost their lawsuit for shared healthcare. On 7 January, a Seoul court threw out the LGBTQ+ inclusive case due to the country’s views on marriage. “The union of a man and woman is still considered the fundamental element of marriage, according to civil law, precedents of the Supreme Court and the Constitutional Court and the general perception of society,” the final judgement read. The devastating news comes a year after So Seong-wook and his partner Kim Yong-min filed a…

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