South Korean artist highlights gay rights in military
BBC
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In South Korea, gay soldiers can serve, but they can be punished for consensual sex. This law is currently under review by the country’s top court.Artist and activist Jeram Kang says he was sexually harassed while serving in the South Korean military. After army commanders learned that he was gay, Jeram was outed. He was later transferred to a psychiatric ward.Ten years on, his hand-written testimony, along with stories of other gay soldiers, have been turned into an art exhibition highlighting gay rights.
[Producer]
In South Korea, gay soldiers can serve, but they can be punished for consensual sex. This law is currently under review by the country’s top court.Artist and activist Jeram Kang says he was sexually harassed while serving in the South Korean military. After army commanders learned that he was gay, Jeram was outed. He was later transferred to a psychiatric ward.Ten years on, his hand-written testimony, along with stories of other gay soldiers, have been turned into an art exhibition highlighting gay rights.
Flower tattoos heal self-harm scars
BBC
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South Korean tattoo artist, Yeon, helps women cover up scars from self-harm with images of flowers.Since last year, she has tattooed around 60 women with her signature flowers. One of them is 27-year-old Seunghi.
[Producer, videographer]
South Korean tattoo artist, Yeon, helps women cover up scars from self-harm with images of flowers.Since last year, she has tattooed around 60 women with her signature flowers. One of them is 27-year-old Seunghi.
The counsellor helping digital sex crime victims
BBC
[Reporter, photographer]
[Reporter, photographer]
In socially conservative Korea, the dozens of women and children who were exploited in the videos face a long and difficult journey to rebuild their lives.
One woman helping them is Lee Hyorin. She told the BBC about her work fighting digital sex crime.
Adoptee Kara Bos's search for her roots in South Korea
BBC
[Editor, producer, videographer]
In the first verdict of its kind, a South Korean court found that a woman adopted by an American couple almost four decades ago must be recognised as the daughter of an 85-year-old South Korean man.The ruling provides hope for the thousands of Korean-born adoptees who want to know the identities of their birth parents.But for Kara Bos, the adoptee who brought the case, it’s been a painful struggle that is still not over.
[Editor, producer, videographer]
In the first verdict of its kind, a South Korean court found that a woman adopted by an American couple almost four decades ago must be recognised as the daughter of an 85-year-old South Korean man.The ruling provides hope for the thousands of Korean-born adoptees who want to know the identities of their birth parents.But for Kara Bos, the adoptee who brought the case, it’s been a painful struggle that is still not over.
Parasite: The real people living in Seoul's basement apartments
BBC
[Writer, photographer]
[Writer, photographer]
A surprise box office hit telling the story of a poor South Korean family living in a tiny, dark semi-basement, and a wealthy family living in a glamorous home in Seoul.
But while the Oscar-winning film Parasite is a work of fiction, the apartment is not. They're called banjiha, and thousands of people live in them in South Korea's capital, Seoul.
I went to meet some of them, to find out what life is like there.
South Korea's 96-year-old pianist hopes to keep playing
BBC
[Editor, videographer]
South Korean Jegal Sam has been playing the piano for 82 years - and is still going strong.The 96-year-old has been inseparable from the instrument even since he first took it up aged 14. It gave him a career teaching which spanned more than 50 years, and even saved him from conscription during the Korean war.Now long retired, he still practises every day - just in case the chance to perform should ever pop up.
[Editor, videographer]
South Korean Jegal Sam has been playing the piano for 82 years - and is still going strong.The 96-year-old has been inseparable from the instrument even since he first took it up aged 14. It gave him a career teaching which spanned more than 50 years, and even saved him from conscription during the Korean war.Now long retired, he still practises every day - just in case the chance to perform should ever pop up.
Shattering Korea’s cement ceiling
BBC
[Producer, editor, videographer]
In South Korea, nearly 90% of victims of violent crime are women. And in recent years, breaking and entering have been on the rise.Meet Korea's all-woman repair service, created for women who feel nervous about having men they don't know in their home.
[Producer, editor, videographer]
In South Korea, nearly 90% of victims of violent crime are women. And in recent years, breaking and entering have been on the rise.Meet Korea's all-woman repair service, created for women who feel nervous about having men they don't know in their home.