The Weddg Banquet Revised: "Contract Marriag" between Korean Gays and Lbians on JSTOR

Contents:

• GAY SOUTH KOREAN FILM DIRECTOR MARRI HIS PARTNER PUBLIC
• IN THE MP WORLD OF K-POP, ’S HARD FOR STARS TO BE GAY
• COUNTRI WHERE GAY MARRIAGE IS LEGAL 2023
• THE FIRST GAY WEDDG KOREA

GAY SOUTH KOREAN FILM DIRECTOR MARRI HIS PARTNER PUBLIC

A urt South Korea has led that same-sex upl are entled to the same spoal verage unr the natnal health surance service as heterosexual upl – the first time the untry has regnised the legal stat of a gay partner. Tuday’s landmark cisn by the Seoul high urt overturned a prev lg by a lower urt January 2022 that rejected a gay uple’s petn after one partner was told he had to make separate health surance South Korean law, a pennt is exempt om makg health surance payments if their spoe meets certa employment ndns.

Although homosexualy self is seen as fallg wh the spe of the nstutnal right to pursue one's happs the Korean legal system, homosexual marriage is not, says Lee Jong-gn, print of Kyungsung Universy, formerly a profsor of law at Donga Universy. “There are arguments ( Korea) that a new ncept of marriage is necsary as Article 36 of the Constutn (on marriage) is unable to ver new typ of fai our society, such as same-sex marriag and sgle parent hoeholds, ” he wr “Constutnal Issu Surroundg Same Sex Marriage” published by the Constutnal Court of history of the dispute ncerng the legal stat of same-sex upl Korea dat back to 2004, when a gay uple requted a divisn of assets, havg separated after 20 years of beg together.

A later, film director Kim-Jho Gwang-soo ma headl wh his ultimately unsuccsful two-year long battle to register his homosexual partnership as a mon-law marriage.

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

Although the South Korean ernment do not procs the marriage registratn applitn of same-sex upl, Supreme Court data shows that 28 homosexual upl applied to register their marriag om March of 2022 to Febary of this year. Legislative iativ There have been some legislative iativ aimed at grantg legal rights to gay upl. The bill never ma to the legislative stage the face of strong opposn om some relig and nservative groups which claimed would effectively “legalize homosexualy” by failg to specify a pannship should be between differg same groups are vol opposn of the Febary Uned Christian Church of Korea, the largt umbrella unn of Christian church the untry, lled the cisn that acknowledged same-sex unns for natnal health surance verage “biased.

Dpe the ncept of homosexual unns not beg wily supported here, some legislators and legal experts strs that same-sex upl do live among Koreans today and that fact needs to be reflected the current legal system. The Weddg Banquet Revised: "Contract Marriag" between Korean Gays and Lbians on JSTOR.

COUNTRI WHERE GAY MARRIAGE IS LEGAL 2023

Korean Court Rejects Gay Couple’s Appeal Over Same-Sex Marriage, Yonhap News Agency (Dec. SEOUL (Rters) - Gay South Korean film director Kim Jho Gwang-soo symbolilly married his long-term partner on Saturday, wh the uple exchangg vows on a bridge, though same-sex marriage remas illegal the nservative Asian Korean film director Kim Jho Gwang-soo (L) kiss his partner Kim Sng-hwan durg their weddg ceremony central Seoul September 7, 2013. REUTERS/Lee Jae-WonDrsed whe, Kim and his partner of ne years, Kim Sng-hwan, staged an ceremony on a stage overlookg a stream, wh a choir and var artists performg a mil men ma clear they were trailblazg a society where tradnal valu keep many homosexuals om g out, let alone prsg for legal approval for same-sex unns.

But more importantly, we want to let people know that gays n marry too our society. Although homosexualy is not illegal, the prsure to marry someone of the oppose sex to ntue the fay blood le is strong and leads many to hi their sexual inty.

THE FIRST GAY WEDDG KOREA

Gays and lbians have been subject to hate crim, wh one gay man sprayed wh hydrochloric acid 2008 by an Zealand last month beme the first untry the Asia-Pacific regn to legalize gay marriage, wh many Atralians now travellg there to tie the knot. Thailand, one of the most liberal untri the regn, do not regnize same-sex marriag, but a civil partnership law givg lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr (LGBT) upl the same rights as heterosexuals is beg said he would nohels formally apply to get his marriage legally registered after the ceremony. Some South Korean lawmakers have backed an anti-discrimatn law that would embrace gay rights, but amendments have founred due to nservative Christian legislators who oppose regnn.

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. 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.