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Never a dull moment, especially if you’re paying attention. We go through some of the odder, weirder, surprisinger news stories in recent months.
This is my stop (May 2023)
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You hit my baby! (2018 to 2022; reported Feb. 2023)
This is not my stop (2019, reported Feb. 2023)
Be our guest (2017)
'The Little Mermaid' tanks in China and South Korea amid racist backlash from some viewers
Pride parade to take to Euljiro streets after Seoul Plaza refusal
- 64 citizens waited outside police stations on rotation for 89 hours, calling it a "rainbow relay."
- However, according to the stenographic records of the committee's meeting on May 3, the committee approved the Christian event, citing the "rights of others not to want to look at them" meaning SQCF participants, and the "negative impacts the queer event could have on children's sexual education." [source]
- Seoul Metropolitan Council members and public servants who attended the meeting agreed with the decision unanimously
- Funny that Deoksugung, across from Seoul Plaza, is filled with hate-filled right wing posters--That’s allowed
- The area from Cheonggyecheon to Deoksugung has regular right wing rallies and tents
- Seoul barred Pride from its usual venue – now some students want to do the same on campus
- “We received a large number of complaints voicing opposition by mail and the e-people service,” explained a Sungkonghoe University official, adding that “the school’s position is that since there is opposition, we should go through a procedure of winning support.”
- “If the festival goes ahead on campus, we will face negative attitudes and pressure from the public. It could also have a negative impact on next year’s [government] financial support assessment,” it predicted.
- South Korea: Human rights boss makes crude, homophobic ‘anal rupture’ claim in draft ruling
- Lee Choong-sang, a human rights commissioner at South Korea’s Human Rights Commission, sparked criticism af-ter he made the remarks in a draft
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