- Homosexuality
- ⚢✔ Legal
- Gay Marriage
- ⚭✖ Unrecognized
- Censorship
- ✖ State-enforced
- Changing Gender
- ✖ Illegal
- Gender-Affirming Care
- Unknown
- Non-Binary Gender Recognition
- ✖ Not legally recognized
- Discrimination
- ✖ No protections
- Employment Discrimination
- ✖ No protections
- Housing Discrimination
- Unknown
- Adoption
- ✖ Illegal
- Intersex Infant Surgery
- Unknown
- Military
- Ambiguous
- Donating Blood
- Unknown
- Conversion Therapy
- Unknown
- Age of Consent
- ✔ Equal
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Homosexual activity in Kangwon-do is legal.
While punishment is rare, it was reported by Free North Korea Radio that in September 2011 North Korea executed a lesbian couple for being influenced by capitalism and bringing corruption of public morals. However, this report has never been confirmed to be true.
Finally, even though de jure homosexuality is not prohibited, de facto there were some cases of punishment for LGBT people
Same-sex marriage in Kangwon-do is unrecognized.
Censorship of LGBT issues in Kangwon-do is state-enforced.
Right to change legal gender in Kangwon-do is illegal.
Gender-affirming care in Kangwon-do is unknown.
Legal recognition of non-binary gender in Kangwon-do is not legally recognized.
LGBT discrimination in Kangwon-do is no protections.
LGBT employment discrimination in Kangwon-do is no protections.
LGBT housing discrimination in Kangwon-do is unknown.
Same-sex adoption in Kangwon-do is illegal.
Intersex infant surgery in Kangwon-do is unknown.
Serving openly in military in Kangwon-do is ambiguous.
However there are sources that claim that during the compulsory 10 year military service homosexual acts between men are very common.
Blood donations by MSMs in Kangwon-do is unknown.
Equal age of consent in Kangwon-do is equal.