SEOUL, April 25 (Korea Bizwire) — A South Korean appellate court has upheld the disciplinary suspension of Pastor Lee Dong-hwan, who received a two-year suspension from the Korean Methodist Church for offering blessings to LGBTQ individuals during a queer cultural festival in 2019. The Seoul High Court’s Civil Division 9 on April 24 dismissed Lee’s appeal [...]
SEOUL, July 1 (Korea Bizwire) — Tens of thousands of people gathered in downtown Seoul on Saturday to enjoy an annual major LGBTQ festival amid opposition from some protesters, its organizer said. The Seoul Queer Culture Festival (SQCF) took place in Seoul’s Euljiro 2-ga area, where local sexual minorities and citizens took part in a [...]
SEOUL, June 17 (Korea Bizwire) — Police officers and local government officials engaged in an unprecedented clash just hours before an annual queer festival in the southeastern city of Daegu on Saturday, but the event ended without major conflict. The tension between the two sides was palpable as they converged upon the bustling shopping district [...]
DAEGU, June 15 (Korea Bizwire) — A court has rejected an injunction request by merchant and church groups to ban an annual LGBTQ festival in Daegu, clearing the way for the event to take place in the heart of the southeastern city this weekend, judicial officials said Thursday. The Daegu District Court dismissed the injunction [...]
SEOUL, May 5 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul Metropolitan Government on Thursday denied the use of Seoul Plaza for the annual festival of the LGBTQ community. The decision came after the citizen committee on Seoul Plaza operations reviewed two requests submitted for the use of the plaza from June 30 to July 1, the city [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 26 (Korea Bizwire) – The Seoul city government said Thursday it has rejected an application from a LGBTQ festival organizer to establish a non-profit foundation, citing concerns of social conflict if the request were to be approved. The city government sent a letter Wednesday to the Seoul Queer Culture Festival (SQCF) Organizing Committee [...]
JEJU, Aug. 28 (Korea Bizwire) – Jeju Island’s first queer festival organizing committee was launched on Monday in the hopes of tackling stereotypes and discrimination against sexual minorities to help create a safer environment, with plans to hold a queer festival later this year. The newly-formed committee dedicated to running a local queer culture festival on [...]
SEOUL, June 13 (Korea Bizwire) – This year’s Seoul Queer Culture Festival (SQCF) for the LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender) community was held on Saturday near City Hall in downtown Seoul. The festival, themed ‘Queer I Am, Cheers to Who We Are’, took place at Seoul Plaza, and celebrated its 17th anniversary with some 50,000 [...]