Tag Archives: South Korea

Just two months ago Seoul Mayor Park Won-Soon earned international headlines when he expressed his hope that South Korea would be the first Asian nation to legalize same-sex marriage.  South Korea’s powerful Christian lobby screamed with outrage and Park soon recanted. Yesterday activists occupied Seoul City Hall after Park reportedly refused to allow LGBT rights to be added to the …

Via the Korea Times: The Seoul Metropolitan Government (SMG) postponed a public hearing on gay rights Thursday after some 200 activists opposed to fair treatment of homosexuals stormed into the capital’s City Hall to stop the proceedings. SMG officials initially planned to gather opinions from a range of experts during the hearing in an effort to draft a Charter of …

This weekend the mayor Seoul, Park Won-soon, expressed his hope that South Korea will become the first Asian nation to legalize same-sex marriage. “I personally agree with the rights of homosexuals,” Park said. “But the Protestant churches are very powerful in Korea. It isn’t easy for politicians. It’s in the hands of activists to expand the universal concept of human …

Seoul’s gay pride parade was disrupted multiple times today when hundreds of Christians laid in the path of the floats and refused to move. According to information provided to Gay Star News by a Ph.D student in South Korea, conservative Christians held mass prayer services during the 7 June event. “To put it simply today was a kind of battle …

The New York Times reports on this week’s hottest viral video, a spoof of Les Miz (or tribute to, depending on your view) created by the South Korean air force. In the 13-minute South Korean version, the nemesis is a taskmaster officer who keeps his exhausted conscripts clearing snow — a chore that many young South Korean men face while …

Number one in America and pretty much everywhere else.

You might recall me posting about South Korean pop vixen BoA a couple of years ago when she played San Francisco Pride. Her real name is Kwon Boa but her Ke$ha-esque stage name is spelled BoA, which stands for “Best of Asia.” In BoA’s new single below you’ll probably be able to spot influences from Britney and Janet to Christina.

A couple of years ago I went on a brief spate of K-pop postings, much to the horror of some of you. I’m not going to do that again (probably), but I do like the latest from top South Korean boy band Super Junior, whose press materials advise that the “official color” for the group is Pearl Sapphire Blue. And …

Their blog is mostly about K-pop, with which I had a brief but intense fascination during the summer of 2010.

I doubt you’ll mind the German narration.(Tipped by JMG reader Henrik)

The other contestants are SO unhappy with her talent.(Source)

A skyscraper project in Korea has some New Yorkers fuming. An architecture firm said Friday it “regrets” a bizarre design for two high-rises in Korea reminds people of the twin towers exploding on 9/11. A mockup shows two soaring skyscrapers connected in the middle by a “pixelated cloud” that evoked the clouds of debris that erupted from the iconic World …

The runners-up were Munich and Annecy, France.

I wasn’t going to bother with this story, but since about a hundred of you have emailed it to me…. Men whose index fingers are shorter than their ring fingers may have longer penises, according to a South Korean study published in the Asian Journal of Andrology. “According to our data … the shorter index (second) finger than ring (fourth) …

In what is being characterized as the worst incident in decades, North Korea has begun shelling a disputed South Korean island. The South Korean military went to “crisis status,” and fighter planes were put on alert but did not take off. South Korean artillery units returned fire after the North’s shells struck South Korea’s Yeonpyeong Island at 2:34 p.m., said …

We may be soon adding South Korea to the long list of nations that allow gays to serve openly in their military. Clause No. 92 in the code, established in 1962, stipulates that those who are engaged in “sodomy or other acts of molestation” are to be given a jail sentence of up to one year. The NHRC has been …

Feel the Gaga.

A very old school Eurovision sound. K-Pop!

More K-pop, this time with an Italo feel and a cameo from Mad TV’s Bobby Lee. The song doesn’t really start until 1:30.