SEOUL, June 7 (Korea Bizwire) — An annual LGBTQ festival by local sexual minorities will take place in downtown Seoul on July 1, organizers said Wednesday, expecting some 50,000 people to participate in the day’s street parade. The 24th Seoul Queer Culture Festival (SQCF) will be held in the Euljiro 2-ga area and participants will [...]
SEOUL, June 30 (Korea Bizwire) — Self-proclaimed ‘feminists’, or radical women advocacy groups, have sparked controversy after criticizing an event for sexual minorities. Dotface, a media startup, recently organized an ‘online queer parade campaign’ after this year’s queer culture festival was postponed due to the coronavirus. This year, a new sentiment of self-proclaimed ‘feminists’, apart [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — Controversy is deepening as civil groups plan to hold the first Queer Culture Festival in Gwangju on October 21. The Gwangju Queer Culture Festival Organizing Committee and 32 other civil groups from Gwangju and South Jeolla Province said on Thursday that “any kind of discrimination and hate towards sexual [...]
SEOUL, June 2 (Korea Bizwire) – A court debate took place Monday over this year’s Korea Queer Culture Festival, which has been planned for June 11 at Seoul Plaza. A court questioning session was arranged after an injunction was filed for ‘lewd public performance’ by a Seoul citizen referred to only as Kim, who has [...]