I was looking at the Livejournal front page, and I saw that omonatheydidnt had not one, but two posts about social attitudes toward lesbians in South Korea.

First, nana_the_dwarf posted a KoreaTimes article about how an online drama series depicting a lesbian romance earned an ire of ROK regulators.
( The repost of the article under the cut )

When I first saw the music video for "Girl President" by South Korean pop group Girl's Day, my eyebrows went up a bit. While South Korean society is not as culturally conservative as it used to be, say, 30 years ago, it's still more culturally conservative than United States. Girls taking off their clothes (even behind the screen) while dancing ( Read more... )

One of the more recent visits to North Korea