K-pop: Why 's hard for stars to be gay South Korea | CNN

Contents:

• 5 STYLISH KOREAN ACTORS AND THE CONTROVERSIAL GAY CHARACTERS THEY PLAYED ON K-DRAMAS
• IN THE MP WORLD OF K-POP, ’S HARD FOR STARS TO BE GAY
• THE KOREAN ACTORS ARE BREAKG DOWN BARRIERS FOR THE GAY COMMUNY IN KOREA
• GAY KOREAN CELEBRI – K-POP SGER FIRST TO E OUT AS GAY 20 YEARS

5 STYLISH KOREAN ACTORS AND THE CONTROVERSIAL GAY CHARACTERS THEY PLAYED ON K-DRAMAS

So seeg actors portray a gay character media is still volatile ground. Their groundbreakg rol as gay characters stirred global nversatns onto the laps of avid K-drama fans.

Korean Actors as Gay K-Drama Characters. Tae-sun later reveals to Oska that he is gay. Former sger, performer, and actor, Lee Ho-dong or better known as Hoya was the first few actors who played a gay character across Korean televisn.

Later on the seri, he harbors the secret that he is gay and is secretly love wh Yoo-jae.

IN THE MP WORLD OF K-POP, ’S HARD FOR STARS TO BE GAY

At the end of the seri, Oh-je nfs to his bt iend that he is gay which be the highlight of the entire seri!

The moment he nfs that he was gay was tly the plot-twist we didn’t expect for. gay characters kdrama.

Shows like Netflix’s Vcenzo and Me are featurg more gay characters but South Korea’s showbiz still has a way to go.

THE KOREAN ACTORS ARE BREAKG DOWN BARRIERS FOR THE GAY COMMUNY IN KOREA

Holland is not the first known LGBT K-pop idol, but you n say that this new generatn of K-pop, he's one of the first idols who admted that he's gay. He ially me out as gay 2015, and upon g Korea, his iends told him to keep his sexualy secret - but he's proud of his inty, makg him the first Korean artist who is openly gay. However, durg an terview, she nfsed she is gay, g her to be kicked out om her agency.

From Itaewon Class and Prison Playbook to Seohyun’s heartbroken closet lbian Hello Dracula, South Korean seri are creasgly embracg gay, lbian and transgenr rol – and the actors have all ma a mark this belated shift towards diversy Published: 11:55am, 9 Jul, 2020 Updated: 11:55am, 9 Jul, 2020 Korean drama actors Moon B, Seohyun and Lee Chung-ah and Lee Joo-young have all portrayed LGBT characters on screen.

What is like to be gay South Korea? Homophobia is still rife South Korea, where very few mastream mic stars have e out as gay.

GAY KOREAN CELEBRI – K-POP SGER FIRST TO E OUT AS GAY 20 YEARS

There, homosexual sex is not banned, but is illegal the ary, where almost all men mt plete a stt of pulsory nscriptn. “It’s kd of sad, ” said Jungm Kwon, an amic who wrote a book lled “Straight Korean Female Fans and Their Gay Fantasi.

“On the one hand looks like the dtry is very open md to shippg culture, ” she told CNN, referrg to the culture among fans of imagg relatnships between their favore stars – cludg gay relatnships. Acrdg to Kwon, fans were spired by “yaoi” – a kd of Japane manga that featur gay relatnships between male upl – and began makg up stori about their favore stars.