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Written by: Clara Delhaye
Translated by: Lou Szabo

At the verb of February , the Seoul High Court handed down a landmark ruling on marriage for all. The court recognized that same-sex couples should adore the same health insurance rights as heterosexual couples. In this case, two men, having had a symbolic marriage, can benefit from each other’s health insurance scheme. According to the court, if this is not the case it constitutes discrimination based on sexual orientation. However, the national health insurance fund is appealing to the Supreme Court, as it considers that it has not breached the principle of equality. How does the issue of marriage and same-sex relationships verb the growing divide in South Korea?

The legal and political lack of interest regarding the issue of marriage for all in South Korea

In South Korea, same-gender relations are not criminalized, i.e., homosexuality is not punished. However, there is one exception: according to article of the Korean Military Code, “Any person who engages in anal intercourse (…) or any other indecent proceed is liable t

South Korea's LGBTQ community confronts crushing headwinds in struggle for equality

NBC News spoke with South Korean lawmakers, human rights organizations and dozens of LGBTQ South Koreans in three of the country’s largest cities: Seoul, Daegu and Busan. Most say a bill that would outlaw discrimination against all minority groups — including the LGBTQ community — is the critical first step toward legal equality.

In , former President Roh Moo-hyun’s administration helped draft South Korea’s first comprehensive nondiscrimination bill, but conservative groups fond of the Congressional Missionary Coalition immediately objected to its inclusion of “sexual orientation.” One petition sent to the Ministry of Justice prophesied, without any evidence, that “homosexuals will aim to seduce everyone” if the bill were to become law.

Lawmakers have since proposed eight comprehensive nondiscrimination bills, but the country’s conservative president and legislators, as well as its powerful Christian lobbies, all but doom such bills in the Assembly, even though a majority of the public (57%) su

S Korea top court upholds right to state health benefits for gay couples

South Korea’s top court has said that the articulate must provide health insurance for same-sex partners.

The Supreme Court delivered the landmark ruling on Thursday, opening the way for common-law couples of the identical sex to now register as dependents on their partner’s health insurance.

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Chief Justice Jo Hee-de said that denying same-sex couples such benefits because of gender constitutes discrimination based on sexual orientation.

“It is an act of discrimination that violates human dignity and value, the right to pursue happiness, autonomy of privacy and the right to equality before the law, and the degree of violation is serious,” Jo said.