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

Contents:

• IN THE MP WORLD OF K-POP, ’S HARD FOR STARS TO BE GAY
• S​OUTH KOREA’S SUPREME COURT ​ISSU LANDMARK RULG ON GAY SEX

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

” One petn sent to the Mistry of Jtice prophied, whout any evince, that “homosexuals will try to sce everyone” if the bill were to bee law. ” In May, a top adviser to Print Yoon said “homosexualy n be treated, ” like a smokg hab (he later rigned). Prottant Pastor Yonah Lee, a stnch supporter of Yoon’s polici, is often lled this untry’s facto “ex-gay” spokperson.

S​OUTH KOREA’S SUPREME COURT ​ISSU LANDMARK RULG ON GAY SEX

” Pastor Yonah Lee, center, leads an "ex-gay" march LifePastor Lee acknowledged that discrimatn agast LGBTQ dividuals is “wrong, ” but he argued that the Bible “nmns homosexualy” and baselsly claimed that an anti-discrimatn law that explicly protects LGBTQ people would “force church to close. Right-wg lawmakers troduced legislatn last year that would remove any reference to “sexual orientatn” as a possible source of discrimatn unr the mandate of the Natnal Human Rights Commissn of liberal Print Moon Jae-, a former human rights lawyer, said on the mpaign trail 2017 that he disliked homosexualy and had “no tentn” of legalizg print, Moon has said he oppos discrimatn, but he has also said that society “has yet to reach a nsens” on legalizg same-sex unns and that the issue needs more Rights Watch reported November that LGBT youth South Korea experienced difference or outright hostily that left them feelg isolated and jeopardized their mental said she feels attus are gradually changg.

“I thk the private sector is begng to look at gay people as ctomers. She dreams of one day beg s first non-European, first female and first openly gay chief executive — a “totem of diversy, ” she the uple still face many obstacl their daily are treated as separate for the purpose of securg a mortgage, they nnot sign medil nsent forms as next-of-k, and for heranc, Korean law giv close fay members tomatic precence, leavg anythg that benefs an unmarried partner vulnerable to legal the ceremony Manhattan, the uple honeymooned the Seychell, but their return to South Korea was a slap back to realy. 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.