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• South Korea: LGBT+

  LGBT rights in East Asia: Connecting Taiwan to Korea

  24 June 2019, by RICH Timothy S.

  Exactly two years after Taiwan’s Constitutional Court declared the civil code that limited marriage rights only to heterosexual couples to be unconstitutional, and despite a groundswell of conservative opposition in the aftermath of the court’s decision, new legislation that formally legalises (...)

• South Korea: LGBT+

  South Korea: Soldier convicted in outrageous military gay witch-hunt

  24 May 2017, by Amnesty International

  South Korea’s military must immediately end a bigoted hunt to root out gay personnel, Amnesty International said, after a serving soldier was convicted of having a same-sex relationship.
  “This unjust conviction should be immediately overturned. No-one should be persecuted based on their sexual (...)