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Korea’s first gay married couple launches first challenge to marriage law
Korea’s first gay married couple Monday (6 July) has filed a suit against the registry office that refused to register their union – the first legal challenge of its kind in the conservative country.
Film director Kim Jho Gwang-soo, 50, and producer Dave Kim, 31, wed in Seoul in September 2013 at at public ceremony attended by 2,000 people.
They tried to register their marriage at their local registry office in December that year but were told civil law did not recognize same-sex unions. They appealed in May 2014 but their application was rejected again.
Kim Jho is now taking their case to court, accusing the office of denying them their constitutional rights to equal treatment.
‘Today might be an important giant step for not just me and Kim but all LGBTs in the nation,’ he wrote on Facebook.
‘I hope the court proves today the first clause of Article 11 in the constitution – which states that all citizens are equal under the law – is effective and not limited to the constitutional meaning.’
An estimated 20,000 people marched in Seoul Pride last week, which was protested by hundreds of hate-filled Christians, some of whom tried to lie in the street to disrupt proceedings.
‘The US Supreme Court decision was the result of a battle that’s been going on since the 1960s,’ Kim Jho told the revelers.
‘I believe it will not take South Korea as long as the US to legalize same-sex marriage.’
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