Cost of silence: Why LGBTQ Koreans hesitate to come out at work

“‘I spent the weekend with my partner,’ I once said. The next question was, ‘How long have you been dating your girlfriend?’ I just smiled and moved on. That’s how the lies begin.” For many sexual minorities in South Korea, the workplace is not simply a site of labor, but a carefully managed stage: Identity is edited, rehearsed or even erased. According to a recent survey by the National Human Rights Commission of Korea, 9 out of 10 sexual minorities said they had hidden or misrepresented their

By The Korea Herald