http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/authors/3159/jonathan-kim Inquiries Journal provides undergraduate and graduate students around the world a platform for the wide dissemination of academic work over a range of core disciplines. en-us Wed, 10 Jun 2026 03:56:39 -0400 Wed, 10 Jun 2026 03:56:39 -0400 http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1241/korean-lgbt-trial-error-and-success By Jonathan Kim - South Korea does not have a strong and visible lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender social movement in the public, despite active issue advocacy organizations, political representation from the Democratic Labour Party, and popular television shows that portray LGBT characters and themes.1 The LGBT movement has had a difficult time growing in South Korea because, as some have argued South Korea has long been ignorant about homosexuality and awareness of ‘gay' had not been discovered until the early 1990s.2 I will look at three causal reasons that best describe the dearth of a growing social... Sun, 15 Apr 2012 12:00 EDT http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1241/korean-lgbt-trial-error-and-success