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6. This top Hallyu actor expressed gratitude for the love he continues to receive.
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Harisu
Harisu has been a part of K-Pop way before the rise of the Hallyu wave. Dohoon & Shinyu (TWS), Husky (Produce Pandas)
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10. The film follows the journey of an urban gay man in search of true love amidst the hustle and bustle of modern Seoul life.
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More commonly known as Hong Seok-Cheon came out as a gay celebrity back in 2000 and created a massive controversy in his home country, Korea.
She later was a part of the girl group named Mercury back in 2015. In about half a year, starting from January, his “R-Rated” Music videos have been gaining love. There has been a lot of drama surrounding her ever since she came out publicly, and as a result of the unexpected move was even kicked out of her company, showing us the struggles and hard conditions for an artist to survive.
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Maman
She debuted in 2007 and came out a short while after but her company tried to spin this as a prank, but she ended up getting kicked out of her company.
She managed to find another company but has unfortunately been inactive since 2015.
Korean Celebrities Who Openly Support LGBT+ Rights
These celebrities do not openly identify as LGBT+ however, they have all repeatedly given examples of their support for LGBT+ causes.
Luckily there were more choices for these celebrities, and we were able to choose some of the best of the best, however, there are many more examples to choose from which is nice to see!
Jo Kwon From 2AM
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CL From 2NE1
CL has always openly supported the queer community and her fans who are gay.
She had debuted back in 2007 under the entertainment company Jerry Entertainment. If you think being queer in Korea is easy, you’re highly mistaken, It’s very stressful, and being yourself is not easy. **Lee Je Hoon**
Despite reaching his 40s, Lee Je Hoon remains youthful and widely adored.
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His relationship with fellow male actors begins to blur the lines between acting and reality in this intense and provocative psychological thriller. LADY
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2. The issue has become more and more accepted in very recent years with many public figures becoming advocates for the cause, however it is still a massive debate with generally a few more people against than for.
There are moves being made, there is now even a show called ‘Marry Queer’ which will feature queer couples and discuss their relationships with some openly gay hosts and the relationships being looked at with a sympathetic lens on a major network.
However, this makes the few instances of the publicly gay celebrities in South Korea even braver for being openly themselves and facing the issues which come with being openly gay in this country.
The visibility these celebrities give towards being gay is what makes them so appreciated by LGBT+ citizens in Korea as well as international fans of Korean culture.
This list will list 9 of the most prominent openly gay celebrities in South Korea since there are unfortunately very few examples of celebrities who have been open about this element of their life.
However, to make up for this we have also included 6 celebrities in South Korea who have openly shown their support for the LGBT+ community and are strong allies because of this.
We have had more choice with this with more and more Korean celebrities voicing their support every year in spite of the backlash even doing this can cause.
Korean society is incredibly critical of its celebrities with it being very easy for the public to make their concerns with celebrities public.
With this being known, these are the most prominent gay Korean celebrities and those who openly support them!
Openly LGBT+ Korean Celebrities
These are the incredibly brave celebrities who are celebrities in Korean, or Korean in origin who openly identify as LGBT+.
Hong Seok- Cheon
When talking about gay figures in Korean entertainment, it is hard to overlook Hong Seok Cheon who is an incredibly famous TV personality in Korea who is very open about his sexuality in the public sphere.
He came out 22 years ago at the age of 30 in 2000 when the attitude towards LGBT+ individuals was even worse than it is now.
He has openly spoken about how bad the initial response to his sexuality was with him getting fired from most of his work incredibly quickly as well as receiving death threats and even thinking about suicide.
It took him 3 years after coming out to even be able to consider coming into the public sphere again, but since then he has been able to regain his popularity and has been able to hold down many jobs on TV for his lovable personality.
He is one of the MCs of the aforementioned Marry Queer reality show mentioned alongside K-pop star Hani from EXID and is shown talking to this idol about his experiences and being able to openly discuss and educate on TV in Korea which would have been unthinkable in the past.
Holland
A very different example from the previous Holland made a solo debut in 2018 but not before having to go independent since his label refused to debut a gay idol even this recently.
He was open about this struggle and helped him gain an audience and has been able to maintain a strong fanbase in Korea as well as worldwide which would not have been possible if he remained repressed at his label.
He has been able to portray his sexuality in his music videos and has spoken about how this has been able to empower him, while also understanding how this restricts his career in Korea.
MRSHLL (Marshall Bang)
Marshall Bang is a Korean American singer who came out in an interview with Time Out in 2015 where he then became one of K-pop’s first openly gay artists.
MRSHLL has been able to maintain a career in both Korea and America and his skills as a singer and producer have been able to speak for themselves and lead him to success.
He has been open about the lack of acceptance he got from his parents, but has also shared that his brothers as well as chosen family were supportive of him.
KilliAN (Lin Jia Le)
KilliAN is a former trainee of one of the biggest Kpop companies being JYP entertainment and joined the company at the young age of just 14.
During his time at the company JYP was preparing to debut the now incredibly popular groups 2PM as well as 2AM, and it is widely accepted that he was planned to be one of the members of these boy groups.
However, he was not able to do so and flourish as he was kicked out of the label after he was discovered to be in a gay relationship with another male trainee at the company.
KilliAN has continued in his path to success but the story of him being kicked out of JYP is particularly tragic knowing the success of the 2 groups he could have been in.
Aquinas (Kang Min Soo)
This contestant on competition show High School Rapper competed in 2019 and ended up coming in an impressive 2nd place and was already known for his appearance on Show Me The Money in 2016 as well.
The rapper came out on Instagram in 2021 as bisexual and this got a mostly positive response.