The South Korean government said Feb. 4 it will remove homosexuality from its list of unacceptable sexual acts that harm teenagers.
The list—which also includes incest, bestiality, prostitution and sadism—is used for censoring movies, books and Web sites, among other purposes.
The law change is expected to take effect in a few months’ time, following public hearings and passage by the National Assembly.
‘We revised the bill because the United Nations and National Human Rights Commission of Korea, among others, said that we shouldn’t violate the human rights of homosexual minors in society,’ Lee Ju-hyun, director of the government’s Commission on Youth Protection, told the JoongAng Daily newspaper.