DAEGU, Dec. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — A controversy broke out after several residents in the southeastern city of Daegu announced they would stage a pork-eating event near the construction site of a mosque. The anti-mosque committee in Buk Ward in Daegu said that will hold an “end-of-year party” 50 or 60 meters away from the [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — A majority of middle school students want to learn about sexual minorities during sex education classes at school, a survey showed Tuesday. The Korean Women’s Development Institute, a state-run think tank, conducted a survey of 4,065 middle school students, of which only 21.1 percent had learned about sexual minorities [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — The Supreme Court ruled Thursday it is illegal to deny transgender people the right to change their legal sex status solely on the grounds that they have underage children. The ruling was made in a request filed in 2019 by a naturally born man who underwent a sex reassignment [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — From now on, setting up kiosks requires installing braille blocks and offering voice guides. The Ministry of Health and Welfare announced that is has released an advance notice of the legislative plan to amend legislation related to discrimination against disabled people. The enforcement decree stipulates that appropriate facilities should [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — School regulations banning students from dying or perming their hair infringe upon their basic human rights, the state rights watchdog said Monday. A high school girl, whose name was withheld, from an undisclosed school in North Gyeongsang Province filed a petition with the National Human Rights Commission of Korea, [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — An appellate court has granted refugee status to a transgender Malaysian national, recognizing persecution based on sexual orientation as a basis for asylum for the first time, sources said Thursday. The Seoul High Court has recently delivered the ruling in a suit the Malaysian filed against the Seoul office [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 19 (Korea Bizwire) – Interrogating suspects late at night in cases that are not urgent constitutes a violation of the rights to sleep and rest, the state human rights watchdog said Wednesday, advising a police station to redress its practice of late night questioning. The recommendation by the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — The National Human Rights Commission decided Friday to issue an official position recommending that it is better to restructure the gender ministry into an independent agency dealing exclusively with gender issues, rather than abolishing it. The commission decided at a board meeting to deliver the position to the National [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — Close to one-third of unmarried couples living together or who are de facto married have experienced discrimination when applying for government subsidies, a survey showed Thursday. The Korea Institute for Health and Social Affairs conducted a survey of 291 households consisting of 336 men and women between 19 and [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — There are around 15,000 seniors who collect cardboard for a living and they were found to earn far less than the minimum wage, data showed Wednesday. Rep. Kang Sun-woo of the Democratic Party referred to a report from the Korea Labor Force Institute for the Aged, which showed that [...]