Trigger Warning: evocation of suicide, abuse and death.

Due to research I have done for my story's plot, I'm following more about LGBTQ+ cause in South Korea and more specifically amoung The military system.

So this blog is more to sensibilize readers and authors about certain facts in order to extend everyone knowledge. Aff's readers and authors directly, of course, but indirectly, their comrades, families, friends, co-workers and colleagues.

Authors can try to use those facts in their stories to spread them for more readers to learn about it.

The more we are aware of what is happening there the more the international pressure is felt too. And the Koreans being very sensitive about their reputation, a big part of their life based on it, the more we disclose how wrong they are acting toward their own citizens, infringing International Human rights, violating their own constitution, discriminating between military and civilian rights, the more it will have an impact (with time).

For now, South Korea is internationaly seen as an advanced High-Tech country, proud of its culture, resisting against multiple historical invasions from China and Japan and of its resilience against North Korea. Expanding its influence via the Hallyu wave (K-pop, Fashion/cosmetics, gastronomy, high technologies and Dramas being the main vehicules). BUT below the shining surface of the water there are a great amount of mud and number of skeletons.

As an author, I feel responsible to convey those sides of Korean society (along with the flaw of French society, my country, as well), because doing the ostrich and hidding my head in the sand is definitely not my thing, and literature in any form can be stronger than anything sometimes. I haven't the pretension to be an influencer, I have only the urge to spread those matters at my own level.

Thank you for reading, sharing and spreading at your turn those dreadfull facts (I will put links beside the facts) :

Korean Military considers transgender as mental and physical handicap, https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/mar/04/south-koreas-first-transgender-soldier-found-dead

Forbids only same relationship between soldiers even out of duty, when they are in holydays for example, https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/24/world/asia/south-korea-gay-soldier-military-court.html

In 2017, Military Witch Hunted and pursued its own soldier for being gay, forcing them to send message to other gay soldiers or to designate them, forcing their coming out. https://au.finance.yahoo.com/news/secrets-crimes-gay-korean-soldiers-trapped-legal-bind-012850427--spt.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAACYy2LzXE23QGEhGJdEbxLJfA4rQYq0EFZw6hgGGYwMzoOScEhpIQ0MO5eOnqLq9rVMR6B6TWP6tuSaecatbI5GVtLpuDvyBR9euxdkrU8LKPHvtbiK8Q-aaO7f2XoJXAsaeOv_aSPhWRQYL_JOrSlUYQWTN8j8tpODiH7KTvGQZ

The military argument to keep the law banning homeual relationship is to maintain discipline and morality in a practically all male communitty, to avoid ual harassement considering the "needs" of the homouals..., however, even in 2019 bullying "suspected" homeual soldiers was tolerated and ual harassement by heterouals was a common thing. https://edition.cnn.com/2019/07/10/asia/south-korea-military-lgbt-intl-hnk/index.html

In 2014 more than 4000 previously unreported cases of abuse emerged in an army survey. https://edition.cnn.com/2014/09/03/world/asia/south-korea-military-bullying/index.html

Bully behavior in South Korea is in every side of the society, family, 'friends', school, work, military and can be deadly: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-28933724