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Foreign diplomatic missions have for the first time participated in the annual Korea Queer Cultural Festival to demonstrate support that their countries have for the LGBT community in South Korea.

A North Korean state news agency has resorted to anti-gay abuse of a UN official for criticizing the communist state's human rights record.

Gay South Korean film director Kim Jho Gwang-soo and his partner Kim Seung-hwan symbolically married in public ceremony in central Seoul on Saturday although same-sex marriage is not legally recognised in Korea.

The Korea Queer Culture Festival celebrated its 10th anniversary over the weekend with its largest-ever march through downtown Seoul. But as South Korea’s LGBT activists celebrate over a decade of queer community organising, funding cuts and a hostile political environment threaten its future. Matt Kelley reports from Seoul.

The newly created Seoul Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transsexual/gender Film Festival will run from June 6 to 10 at Seoul Art Cinema.