After the awful news coming out of Orlando today, we had to share a lovely, heartwarming moment from Seoul Pride yesterday. By all accounts this year’s parade was a success with an estimated 50,000 people turning out. That’s apparently almost twice as many as last year which…
Gangnam subway entrance no. 10 in Seocho has been covered in post-it notes and flowers after a 23-year-old woman was allegedly murdered by a stranger who admitted after his arrest that he hated women for ignoring him.
The suspect is thought to have been in a unisex…
This is part of a series of articles exploring LGBT issues in Korea in the run up to Pride 2016.
The 17th May is known as International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia where people around the world take a stand against discrimination and stand up for LGBT rights. Here in…
This is part of a series of articles exploring LGBT issues in Korea in the run up to Pride 2016.
Another year, another run up to Pride and another set of scaremongering stories about the LGBT community in Korea. According to recent news, the internet is literally making kids gay…
This is part of a series of articles exploring LGBT issues in Korea in the run up to Pride 2016.
Conservative news channel TV Chosun recently broadcast a report on how homosexuality is increasing among teenagers in Korea. As you might expect from a right-wing Korean news outlet, it…
Wednesday 14th April is not a day President Park Geun-hye will be keen to remember in years to come. With the votes counted her party, Saenuri, are not even the largest party in the National Assembly, let alone the majority.
Voters this time round were not voting for the…
Many a joke has been made about the cult-like nature of K-pop fandom but now it appears an actual cult may be targeting K-pop fans.
A couple of days ago someone sent me a message on Facebook asking if they could post about an event they were…
