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☆ A South Korean mayor led hundreds of city officials to stop an annual pride festival but police intervened to protect organizers and allow the event to proceed
  + stars: | 2023-06-17 | by ( Katie Hawkinson | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +2 min
The mayor of Daegu, South Korea led a protest to block the city's annual pride festival. Since starting in 2009, the Daegu Queer Culture Festival has been one of the largest in the country. For festival organizers, it was not their first run-in with opposition to the event. Since its inception in 2009, the Daegu Queer Culture Festival has faced repeated protests. The Daegu Queer Culture Festival is one of the largest in the country, with Seoul's Queer Culture Festival taking first place.
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☆ South Korea's LGBT festival bumped from venue in favor of Christian youth concert
  + stars: | 2023-05-05 | by ( Jessie Yeung Gawon Bae | Jessie Yeung | Gawon Bae | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +4 min
Seoul, South Korea CNN —For years, South Korea’s biggest annual LGBTQ pride celebration has been held in the same grassy square in central Seoul, which fills up with performers and joyful participants decked out in rainbow costumes. Organizers for both the festival and the Christian concert applied to use the Seoul Plaza venue from June 30 to July 1, the Seoul Metropolitan Government said in a statement Thursday. The foundation is linked with the Christian broadcaster CTS, which has vocally opposed homosexuality and the pride festival, according to Reuters. The tension between South Korea’s LGBTQ community and their conservative, often Christian critics is clearly displayed at each pride festival, where both groups show up. At last year’s SQCF festival, opponents and religious groups gathered outside the venue, displaying protest messages on banners and shouting anti-LGBTQ slogans through loudspeakers.
☆ In Halloween crush, South Koreans see young people being failed again
  + stars: | 2022-11-07 | by ( Soo Youn | ) www.nbcnews.com   time to read: +8 min
Then they placed white chrysanthemums on a memorial altar for the 156 mostly young victims of the Halloween crowd crush, and wrote condolences for scores of people who had departed this life decades too soon. Older generations, she said, failed them like they failed the costumed partygoers on Oct. 29. “Why couldn’t the police have gotten there sooner?”South Koreans across the country are asking the same questions. On Monday, Yoon apologized for the crowd crush, vowing to improve police and safety management systems and hold accountable anyone found responsible. The anti-Yoon protests have been going on for weeks with a heavy police presence, including the night of the Halloween crush, which has also angered critics, as has Yoon’s move out of the official presidential residence into a luxury apartment building.
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