The First Step of Sexual Diversity in South Korea

Seo Yeon Ryu - Week One Card News

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Korea's first sexually diverse reality dating show, “남의 연애”, will release its first episode this month on Wavve.

The short trailer, released before the airing on July 15, drew a lot of attention, recording 7,000 views on YouTube and 1 million on Twitter.

However, the beginning is not as easy as it seems to take the first step to change the conservative society that is South Korea. There were as many as 110,000 quote retweets, meaning that 10,000 people left their opinions on such programs. Of course, it is unreasonable to expect acceptance from all. While there are many who send warm messages of support to the brave participants, there are also those who express reluctance.

Several haters poured out rude, personal remarks to the participants who have not even shown their faces properly. However, rather than reckless hate speech, the fact that prevalent ideas in queer communities such as “what if those of the same position are matched?” were being talked about among heterosexuals is also noticeable.

This possibly is one proof that homosexuality has reached some degree of understanding among the general public.

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