A shared memo from Samsung to Sean Howell, CEO of Hornet, has highlighted the blocking of gay social apps in South Korea.

Hornet's application was blocked because “due to the local moral values or laws, content containing LGBT [subject matter] is not allowed.”

In fact, Samsung offers no LGBT dating apps in its store, anywhere in the world.

In South Korea, however, Jack'd is even blocked on Google Play. Other well-known LGBT apps are still available through Apple iOS, but the country has far less Apple users than Samsung.

Although homosexuality is not illegal in Korea, the country's Standards Commission has decided that LGBT material “is automatically identified as material harmful to youth,” according to civil-rights lawyer Park Kyung-sin.

LGBT campaigners face fierce opposition from traditional attitudes and from conservative Christian groups and had to enter a legal battle to conduct this year's pride march.

The country’s new justice minister, Kim Hyun-woong, recently called for restrictions against a pride march that has been held for in Seoul for over fifteen years, according to Pink News.

“It does not go by our society’s traditional values or norms, therefore I believe there should be restrictions against it,” he said.