South Korea: LGBT Students Face Bullying, Discrimination

(Seoul) - Young lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people in South Korea experience isolation and mistreatment in schools, Human Rights Watch and the Allard K. Lowenstein International Human Rights Clinic at Yale Law School said in a report released today. The 76-page report, "'I Thought of Myself as Defective': Neglecting the Rights of LGBT Youth in South Korean Schools," finds that bullying and harassment, a lack of confidential mental health support, exclusion from school curricul...