This is the talk page for discussing improvements to the LGBTQ rights in South Korea article.
This is not a forum for general discussion of the article's subject.

Put new text under old text. Click here to start a new topic.
New to Wikipedia? Welcome! Learn to edit; get help.

Article policies

Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL

Korea Mid‑importance

	This article is within the scope of WikiProject Korea, a collaborative effort to build and improve articles related to Korea. All interested editors are invited to join the project and contribute to the discussion. For instructions on how use this banner, please refer to the documentation.KoreaWikipedia:WikiProject KoreaTemplate:WikiProject KoreaKorea-related articles
Mid	This article has been rated as Mid-importance on the project's importance scale.

Gender studies Mid‑importance

This article is part of WikiProject Gender studies. This WikiProject aims to improve the quality of articles dealing with gender studies and to remove systematic gender bias from Wikipedia. If you would like to participate in the project, you can choose to edit this article, or visit the project page for more information.Gender studiesWikipedia:WikiProject Gender studiesTemplate:WikiProject Gender studiesGender studies articles

Mid

This article has been rated as Mid-importance on the project's importance scale.

To-do list:

Here are some tasks awaiting attention:

Assess : see Unassessed Gender studies articles and Unknown-importance Gender studies articles
Cleanup : edit to see
Collaborate : see /Collaboration
Copyedit : edit to see
Deletion sorting : see /Sexuality and gender
Expand : edit to see
Infobox : see Gender studies articles needing infoboxes
Merge : edit to see
Notability : edit to see
NPOV : edit to see
Orphans : Brannon Masculinity Scale · Holy Virility · Media and gender · Michael Kaufman (author) · Women's education in Saudi Arabia
Photo : see Wikipedia requested photographs of gender studies
Split : History of feminism
Stubs : see Gender studies stubs
Translate : see /translation
Update : edit to see
Verify : Riot grrrl
Needs attention : see Gender studies articles needing attention

LGBTQ+ studies

This article is of interest to WikiProject LGBTQ+ studies, which tries to ensure comprehensive and factual coverage of all LGBTQ-related issues on Wikipedia. For more information, or to get involved, please visit the project page or contribute to the discussion.LGBTQ+ studiesWikipedia:WikiProject LGBTQ+ studiesTemplate:WikiProject LGBTQ+ studiesLGBTQ+ studies articles

Human rights Low‑importance

	This article is within the scope of WikiProject Human rights, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Human rights on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.Human rightsWikipedia:WikiProject Human rightsTemplate:WikiProject Human rightsHuman rights articles
Low	This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.

Sexology and sexuality Low‑importance

	Human sexuality portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Sexology and sexuality, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of human sexuality on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.Sexology and sexualityWikipedia:WikiProject Sexology and sexualityTemplate:WikiProject Sexology and sexualitySexology and sexuality articles
Low	This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.

Politics Mid‑importance

	Politics portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Politics, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of politics on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.PoliticsWikipedia:WikiProject PoliticsTemplate:WikiProject Politicspolitics articles
Mid	This article has been rated as Mid-importance on the project's importance scale.

Citations

Almost the entirety of the introduction is not cited, and quite frankly I question the particular biased word choice utilized such as "challenges", "discrimination", and "legal protection", when quite clearly the only section that is cited reports an essence of freedom and laws to protect against discrimination.

But if there is a strong sense of actual discrimination (in South Korea), then cases and references need to be cited to support it. Otherwise the article is rampant with an unsupported and unfounded personal opinion, that seems to me, designed to press an agenda. Colonel Marksman (talk) 19:44, 28 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

This could be a helpful resource in thinking about LGBT, nationalism, citizenship & rights! Proud of Myself as LGBTQ:The Seoul Pride Parade, Homonationalism, and Queer Developmental Citizenship by Woori Han

Re: Early 1990's Paragraph

"It appears though, that the attitude regarding homosexuality is softening in South Korea. It would be safe to say that South Korea's current atmosphere in relation to homosexuals resembles that of the United States in the early 1990's"

This is an unsourced argument and might represent an opinion rather than a verified fact.

Although i do not doubt that certainly some change in attitude is in progress, the above might be a hasty generalization and gross exaggeration.

On a secondary note, what reference is provided for the homosexual "atmosphere" of the "early 1990's" in the United States?

Unless proper citations are included that show the relations to the 1990's gay rights movements in the United States, i will proceed to delete the above quoted segment.

Mkhkoh 01:37, 25 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Recent edits by Zz8w

Hi Zz8w! It would be desirable and indeed necessary to provide some referencing for your recent claims especially about the conflict potential with muslim immigrants. I could easily imagine that this is so, but that is just not enough for wikipedia. Without proper referencing, it will be difficult to retain your edits. G Purevdorj (talk) 18:07, 14 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Please help expand a related article: Korea Queer Culture Festival

Editors interested in this topic may want to help me expand this article for a WP:DYK entry. --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 09:48, 29 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

External links modified

Hello fellow Wikipedians,

I have just added archive links to one external link on LGBT rights in South Korea. Please take a moment to review my edit. If necessary, add {{cbignore}} after the link to keep me from modifying it. Alternatively, you can add {{nobots|deny=InternetArchiveBot}} to keep me off the page altogether. I made the following changes:

Added archive https://web.archive.org/20060909005849/http://jenellerose.com:80/htmlpostings/harisu.htm to http://www.jenellerose.com/htmlpostings/harisu.htm

When you have finished reviewing my changes, please set the checked parameter below to true to let others know.

Y An editor has reviewed this edit and fixed any errors that were found.

If you have discovered URLs which were erroneously considered dead by the bot, you can report them with this tool.
If you found an error with any archives or the URLs themselves, you can fix them with this tool.

Cheers.—^{cyberbot II}_{Talk to my owner:Online} 10:23, 17 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

External links modified

Hello fellow Wikipedians,

I have just modified one external link on LGBT rights in South Korea. Please take a moment to review my edit. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information. I made the following changes:

Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20160314051755/http://www.ipsos-na.com/download/pr.aspx?id=12795 to http://www.ipsos-na.com/download/pr.aspx?id=12795

When you have finished reviewing my changes, you may follow the instructions on the template below to fix any issues with the URLs.

Y An editor has reviewed this edit and fixed any errors that were found.

If you have discovered URLs which were erroneously considered dead by the bot, you can report them with this tool.
If you found an error with any archives or the URLs themselves, you can fix them with this tool.

Cheers.—InternetArchiveBot (Report bug) 23:49, 7 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Unclear paragraph on Military

Is the homosexuality banned among professional soldiers only or are the boys in mandatory service also somehow prosecuted? If they are prosecuted, how are they prosecuted?

External links modified

Hello fellow Wikipedians,

I have just modified 4 external links on LGBT rights in South Korea. Please take a moment to review my edit. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information. I made the following changes:

When you have finished reviewing my changes, you may follow the instructions on the template below to fix any issues with the URLs.

This message was posted before February 2018. After February 2018, "External links modified" talk page sections are no longer generated or monitored by InternetArchiveBot. No special action is required regarding these talk page notices, other than regular verification using the archive tool instructions below. Editors have permission to delete these "External links modified" talk page sections if they want to de-clutter talk pages, but see the RfC before doing mass systematic removals. This message is updated dynamically through the template {{source check}} (last update: 5 June 2024).

If you have discovered URLs which were erroneously considered dead by the bot, you can report them with this tool.
If you found an error with any archives or the URLs themselves, you can fix them with this tool.

Cheers.—InternetArchiveBot (Report bug) 11:36, 14 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Wording seems off, Citation missing

"Since taking office, the U.N. Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, the Social Rights Commission, the Child Rights Commission, the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, and the Human Rights Council (UPR) recommended the enactment of the Anti-Discrimination Act, the 21st National Assembly proposed an anti-discrimination law, and the Blue House, which had been silent while the National Human Rights Commission recommended the enactment of the Equal Act, finally opened its mouth."

This doesn't sound very neutral, any suggestions on how to change that? Also, a source would be nice. Same goes for the next paragraph. ChaseTheMoon (talk) 01:18, 28 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Wiki Education assignment: Gender and Sexuality in World Civilizations I

This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 27 September 2022 and 10 December 2022. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Aney1234 (article contribs).

— Assignment last updated by Aney1234 (talk) 16:24, 2 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Intersex Peoples section

I added a section in the article about intersex peoples in Korea because I think it is a topic that Korean articles about LGBT do not include and I thought it may be a significant addition to this Wikipedia article. However, there is not a lot of published academic articles or other secondary sources about intersex people in Korea that I was able to find. If anyone is able to find or come across any information or sources that include information about intersex people in Korea, please add to the section! Aney1234 (talk) 18:49, 29 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Source for Blood Donation is a broken page

Specifically, citation number 54 links to a broken page. MrMagical7812 (talk) 05:05, 22 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Display in social media

Korea has not currently addressed problems in the media regarding same-sex marriage. 124.148.66.47 (talk) 12:23, 30 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

This has changed

"The Supreme Court of Korea has ruled that in order for a person to be eligible for gender affirming care they must be over 20 years of age, single, and without children." They changed this to if they have children it's OK. https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2022/11/south-korea-supreme-court-ruling-on-legal-gender-recognition-an-important-step-forward-for-transgender-rights/ Here is the amnesty International page on it. NPR as well: https://www.npr.org/2022/11/25/1139190242/south-koreas-supreme-court-rules-on-legal-transgender-recognition--KimYunmi (talk) 17:20, 21 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]