- Homosexuality
- ⚢✔ Legal
- Gay Marriage
- ⚭✖ Not legal
- Censorship
- Ambiguous
- Changing Gender
- ✖ Legal, but requires surgery
- Non-binary gender recognition
- Unknown
- Discrimination
- ✖ Illegal in some contexts
- Employment Discrimination
- ✖ No protections
- Housing Discrimination
- ✖ No protections
- Adoption
- ✖ Illegal
- Military
- ✖ Illegal
- Donating Blood
- ✖ Banned (1-year deferral)
- Conversion Therapy
- ✖ Not banned
- Age of Consent
- ✔ Equal
History
Homosexual activity in South Chungcheong is legal.
Article 92-6 of the Military Criminal Act penalizes "anal intercourse" and other so-called “indecent acts” in any military setting with up to two years in prison — and all able-bodied men must serve about two years in the military. No law criminalizes heterosexual intercourse in the South Korean military.
Censorship of LGBT Issues in South Chungcheong is ambiguous.
Right to change legal gender in South Chungcheong is legal, but requires surgery.
These guidelines include abusive or discriminatory requirements, such being at least 19 years old themselves, as well as being unmarried, diagnosed with “transsexualism” and having undergone hormone therapy and been sterilized.
Legal recognition of non-binary gender in South Chungcheong is unknown.
LGBT discrimination in South Chungcheong is illegal in some contexts.
Since Aug 15, 1948
LGBT employment discrimination in South Chungcheong is no protections.
LGBT housing discrimination in South Chungcheong is no protections.
Same-sex adoption in South Chungcheong is illegal.
Serving openly in military in South Chungcheong is illegal.
However, there are some signs that restrictions on LGBTQ service members may be easing: In 2022, the South Korean Supreme Court overturned the conviction of two soldiers for gay sex, and in 2021, a district court posthumously reinstated a transgender soldier who died by suicide after being dismissed from the army.
Blood donations by MSMs in South Chungcheong is banned (1-year deferral).
Conversion therapy in South Chungcheong is not banned.
Equal age of consent in South Chungcheong is equal.