- Homosexuality
- ⚢✔ Legal
- Gay Marriage
- ⚭✖ Banned
- Censorship
- ✖ State-enforced
- Changing Gender
- ✖ Legal, but requires surgery
- Gender-Affirming Care
- ✔ Legal
- Non-Binary Gender Recognition
- ✖ Not legally recognized
- Discrimination
- ✖ Illegal in some contexts
- Employment Discrimination
- Varies by Region
- Housing Discrimination
- Varies by Region
- Adoption
- ✖ Illegal
- Intersex Infant Surgery
- Unknown
- Military
- ✖ Illegal
- Donating Blood
- ✔ Legal
- Conversion Therapy
- ✖ Not banned
- Age of Consent
- ✔ Equal
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Homosexual activity in South Chungcheong is legal.
Article 92-6 of the Military Criminal Act penalizes "anal intercourse" and other so-called “indecent acts” in any military setting with up to two years in prison — and all able-bodied men must serve about two years in the military. No law criminalizes heterosexual intercourse in the South Korean military.
Same-sex marriage in South Chungcheong is banned.
Censorship of LGBT Issues in South Chungcheong is state-enforced.
Right to change legal gender in South Chungcheong is legal, but requires surgery.
These guidelines include abusive or discriminatory requirements, such being at least 19 years old themselves, as well as being unmarried, diagnosed with “transsexualism” and having undergone hormone therapy and been sterilized.
Legal recognition of non-binary gender in South Chungcheong is not legally recognized.
LGBT discrimination in South Chungcheong is illegal in some contexts.
LGBT employment discrimination in South Chungcheong is varies by region.
LGBT housing discrimination in South Chungcheong is varies by region.
Same-sex adoption in South Chungcheong is illegal.
Intersex infant surgery in South Chungcheong is unknown.
Serving openly in military in South Chungcheong is illegal.
However, there are some signs that restrictions on LGBTQ service members may be easing: In 2022, the South Korean Supreme Court overturned the conviction of two soldiers for gay sex, and in 2021, a district court posthumously reinstated a transgender soldier who died by suicide after being dismissed from the army.
Blood donations by MSMs in South Chungcheong is legal.
Conversion therapy in South Chungcheong is not banned.
Equal age of consent in South Chungcheong is equal.
At 13, individuals can have sexual relations with anyone older than 13 and younger than 19. At 16, individuals can have sexual relations with anyone older than 16.