HOMOSEXUALITY IN KOREA: Korean Celebri, Gay Idols and more | K-Pop Amo

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
• KOREAN ACTOR'S REALY DRAMA: COMG OUT AS GAY
• GAY KOREAN CELEBRI – K-POP SGER FIRST TO E OUT AS GAY 20 YEARS
• GAY AND TRANS SOLDIERS SAY THEY WERE ABED SOUTH KOREAN ARY
• HOMOSEXUALITY IN KOREA: KOREAN CELEBRI, GAY IDOLS AND MORE
• THE KOREAN ACTORS ARE BREAKG DOWN BARRIERS FOR THE GAY COMMUNY IN KOREA
• 8 UNFORTABLE TTHS ABOUT BEG GAY SOUTH KOREA
• THE KOREAN ACTORS ARE BREAKG DOWN BARRIERS FOR THE GAY COMMUNY IN KOREA
• 8 UNFORTABLE TTHS ABOUT BEG GAY SOUTH KOREA

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. 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.

KOREAN ACTOR'S REALY DRAMA: COMG OUT AS GAY

However, durg an terview, she nfsed she is gay, g her to be kicked out om her agency. 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.

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

“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.

GAY AND TRANS SOLDIERS SAY THEY WERE ABED SOUTH KOREAN ARY

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. Even now, K-pop labels sometim cultivate idols’ homoerotic appeal the hop that mak them more popular fanfictn, where Kwon timat 80% of stori volve gay story l.

South Korea’s rerd labels are happy to let fans fantasize about idols beg gay. But they don’t want gay idols be open about their sexualy.

HOMOSEXUALITY IN KOREA: KOREAN CELEBRI, GAY IDOLS AND MORE

But when me time to but, the label was agast him butg as a gay idol. “It’s a shame that’s the lim they n go when to showg homosexual teractn – n only be portrayed as funny.

After Hong me out publicly as gay 2000, he was fired om his hostg job and lost other work – and thor Kwon believ that harsh rponse has disuraged others om followg su. Holland thks thgs are changg: more artists appear to be ditg that they are alli of the gay muny. In the absence of nfirmatn, mentators have ed small, clive clu to speculate on their stance, for example, the time the band’s lear RM tweeted Macklemore’s song “Same Love, ” which promot equal rights for gay people.

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

But ultimately, experts believe a time when gay stars are accepted mastream K-pop uld still be some way off. Origatg 1960s Japan, where  was known as “yaoi, ” BL typilly picts two men a homoerotic relatnship. Some LGBTQ activists have acced BL stori of fetishizg and appropriatg gay culture.

Wily regnized as South Korea’s first openly gay K-pop artist, the sger and actor Go Tae-seob, who the stage name Holland, starred a BL drama last year and believ that the growg visibily of BL books, TV seri and movi is a posive step. Bdette, who also intifi as gay and is a longstandg BL fan, said the genre will shake up nservative views on genr and sexualy South Korea.

8 UNFORTABLE TTHS ABOUT BEG GAY SOUTH KOREA

“Whether you are a heterosexual woman tryg to ject your sexual tonomy to the world, or you are a gay man who wants to see posive reprentatns of male-male romance, BL n be ed, ” he said. 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.

“Merry Queer” -host Hong Seok-cheon—one of the most proment openly gay celebri South Korea—spoke to TIME along wh the shows' producer Lim Chang-hyuck and “His Man” st member Lee Jeong-ho on what the shows mean for queer reprentatn. 1, 2003Around the rner om Gay Hill and Hooker Hill, among the serpente si streets the Itaewon district that visors roam wh tent, Hong S Chon was tryg very hard one recent night to relax si his bar, ''Our Place. Hong, a popular televisn actor, beme the first well-known figure South Korea to state publicly that he is gay.

His claratn troduced the ncept of g out to a society that until then did not even acknowledge the existence of homosexualy here and regard as a foreign Hong was dropped om his televisn rol. Before I me out, no one talked about homosexualy Korea. I thk Koreans are startg to accept homosexualy.

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

Hong will be back on televisn October, playg an openly gay character.

Tradnally, gays have moved only the shadows of Korean society.

8 UNFORTABLE TTHS ABOUT BEG GAY SOUTH KOREA

Here the pal, that still means two neighborhoods: Jungro, which attracts olr Korean men, most of whom are married and do not acknowledge they are gay, and Itaewon, where younger Korean and foreign men meet bars dottg Gay Hill, like Always Homme.

''After Hong S Chon me out, a lot of ordary people have e out, '' said Ace, 25, the Korean manager of Always was only a ago that a gay rights movement was born South Korea, led by gay Korean-Amerins, gay activists here said. They wore masks at public ralli or news nferenc, said Lim Tae Hoon, 27, an official wh the Gay and Lbian Human Rights Hong's g out spired others -- so much so that Mr.