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Responding to a South Korean High Court decision ordering the country\u2019s national health insurance service to resume coverage for a partner in a same-sex relationship, Amnesty International\u2019s East Asia Researcher Boram Jang<\/strong> said:<\/p>\n\n\n

\u201cThis is an important decision that moves South Korea closer to achieving marriage equality. There is still a long way to go to end discrimination against the LGBTI community, but this ruling offers hope that prejudice can be overcome.<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n

Background:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

South Korea\u2019s High Court today ordered the National Health Insurance Service (NHIS) to resume coverage for a partner in a same-sex relationship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On 7 January 2022, the Seoul Administrative Court dismissed an administrative lawsuit filed by So Seong-wook against the NHIS for denying insurance coverage by not recognizing his partner Kim Yong-min as a dependent. Seong-wook appealed the decision to the High Court on 21 January 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The couple held a wedding ceremony in 2019 and live together as a married couple, though their relationship is not recognized under South Korean law. They had been the first same-sex couple to be able to register a \u2018dependent\u2019 under the NHIS but the NHIS cancelled this dependent status eight months later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Taiwan became the first in Asia to legalize same-sex marriage in May 2019. Legislation recognizing marriage between same-sex couples went into effect this month in Slovenia and Andorra, bringing the global total of countries recognizing same-sex marriage in law to 33.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Responding to a South Korean High Court decision ordering the country\u2019s national health insurance service to resume coverage for a partner in a same-sex relationship, Amnesty International\u2019s East Asia Researcher Boram Jang said: Background: South Korea\u2019s High Court today ordered the National Health Insurance Service (NHIS) to resume coverage for a partner in a same-sex relationship. On […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":2315,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_yoast_wpseo_focuskw":"","_yoast_wpseo_title":"","_yoast_wpseo_metadesc":"","_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-noindex":"","_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-nofollow":"","_yoast_wpseo_canonical":"","_yoast_wpseo_opengraph-title":"","_yoast_wpseo_opengraph-description":"","_yoast_wpseo_opengraph-image":"","_yoast_wpseo_opengraph-image-id":0,"_yoast_wpseo_twitter-title":"","_yoast_wpseo_twitter-description":"","_yoast_wpseo_twitter-image":"","_yoast_wpseo_twitter-image-id":0,"_hero_title":"","_hero_content":"","_hero_cta_text":"","_hero_cta_link":"","_hero_alignment":"","_hero_background":"","_hero_size":"","_hero_show":"","_hero_type":"","_hero_embed":"","_hero_video_id":0,"_hero_hide_image_caption":true,"_hero_hide_image_copyright":false,"_nav_style":"","_disable_share_icons":false,"_disable_sidebar":false,"_display_author_info":false,"_hide_featured_image":false,"_hide_featured_image_caption":true,"_maximize_post_content":false,"_reduce_content_width":false,"_sidebar_id":0,"_stretch_thumbnail":false,"byline_context":"","byline_entity":"","byline_is_author":false,"disable_related_content":false,"download_id":0,"download_text":"","show_published_date":true,"show_updated_date":true,"term_slider":"","amnesty_index_number":"","recipients":"","recipients_refresh":"","recipients_refreshed":"","amnesty_umbraco_data":"","document_ref":"","amnesty_updated":"","footnotes":""},"category":[1584],"location":[1588,1587,1589],"resourceType":[],"topic":[],"class_list":["post-2314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","location-southeast-asia","location-thailand","location-world"],"datePosted":"February 22, 2023","mlpRelationships":{"1":3504,"2":2314},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amnesty.or.th\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amnesty.or.th\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amnesty.or.th\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amnesty.or.th\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amnesty.or.th\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.amnesty.or.th\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2314\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amnesty.or.th\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amnesty.or.th\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amnesty.or.th\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/category?post=2314"},{"taxonomy":"location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amnesty.or.th\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/location?post=2314"},{"taxonomy":"resource-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amnesty.or.th\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/resourceType?post=2314"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amnesty.or.th\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=2314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}