Rights body urges South Korea to pass anti-discrimination law

Human Rights Watch says legislation would protect vulnerable young South Koreans including the LGBTQ community from bullying and harassment.

Kim Do-hyun, a transgender male, still remembers growing up in South Korea and struggling with his identity as a teenager. In the classroom, his teachers reinforced the idea that being gay or lesbian was wrong. In middle school, a teacher showed his class the film Farewell My Concubine which depicts homosexuality, and one of his classmates later remarked that “all homosexuals should be shot dead”.