LGBT Rights in South Korea: homosexuality, gay marriage, gay adoption, serving in the military, sexual orientation discrimination protection, changing legal gender, donating blood, age of consent, and more.
Conclusions: Our findings suggest that the responses of NA on the discrimination questionnaire may need different interpretation based on the respondents' gender and education level in South Korea. 漏 2012 Kim et al.SeungSup KimChung, Yeonseung...
(2017). Disability discrimination in South Korea: routine and everyday aggressions toward disabled people. Disability & Society. Ahead of Print. doi: 10.1080/09687599.2017.1321223doi:10.1080/09687599.2017.1321223Jung Youn ParkDisability & Society...
Whatever the reasons behind it and the details of related practices, women are angry. 'We have lived exposed to sexism in Korea and we are realizing this, so now we are facing this discrimination – we are angry at society and we are trying to fix this,' said Kim Sun-hee, a student...
1. Discrimination Against Certain Groups However, there are also many that oppose No-Zones. They claim that these restricted areas can spread discrimination and hate. In 2017, the National Human Rights Commission of Korea ruled that No Kids Zones constitute an unjustifiable act of age discrimination...
This study aimed to evaluate whether social capital could alleviate health inequality against racial discrimination and identify the critical nature of social capital that generates health inequality differences within the social context of South Korea. Using the data of the 2009 National Survey of Multic...
but also spend all their time fraternizing with coworkers and women rather than spending it with their children. This aspect of Korean culture is toxic to families, and is one of the reasons I don’t believe I could raise a family in Korea. I am truly interested to hear how other marrie...
This study aims to explore the reexperience of trauma caused by experience of discrimination and stigma from South Korean. For this purpose of this study, focus group interview methods are used. The participants are five women who escaped from North Korea and they were from 20s to 50s. From ...
South Korea, an unstable peninsula under the idea of democracy, has continuous anxiety on the never-ending possibilities of warfare with the Communist country of North Korea. Due to this country’s precarious diplomatic situation with its neighbor, having a strong military system is a highly signif...
27, 1995. Recent comments from the judiciary have been supportive of same-sex partnerships. Anti-discrimination laws have been enacted protecting homosexuals and education about homosexuality is now taking place in lower schools. Seoul has both an annual GLBT film festival and a Queer Culture ...