Should Korea Restrict a Homosexual Marriage?

Should Korea Restrict a Homosexual Marriage?

     A homosexual marriage is the freedom of the individual, but Korea restricts it . In my opinion, Korea should legalize it for three reasons. First, homosexual marriage is legality in constitution. According to Article 36 of the Constitution, marriage and family life should constitute the basis of individual dignity and equality of gender and maintain, also nation guarantees it. 'Gender' in this constitution means man or woman, just not man and woman. It means constitution allows not only heterosexual marriage but also homosexual marriage. Constitution is prior to all other laws, so Korea legalizes homosexual marriage. Second, homosexual couples have problem that heterosexual couples do not have. They aren't allowed basic human right like property, inheritance and so on. They need couple's report of marriage for basic human right, but Korea shouldn't recognize their marriage. '김조광수-김승환' couple, open homosexual couple, also shouldn't get recognition. They took legal action against report of marriage in 2013, but the court shouldn't judge the trial yet. Third, many people said "homosexual marriage reduces birth rate," so they insist that Korea shouldn't legalize it. It's right that gay couples can't get pregnant, but homosexual marriage don't reduces birth rate. According to KBS Broadcast Culture Research, the number of homosexual per the total population is 1.9%. Maybe homosexual couples are smaller than that. The birth rate decrease because of the average number of children per household, not homosexual marriage. According to National Statistical Office, the average number of children per household in Seoul is 0.968. It means hetero couples don't give birth well. Beside, lesbian couples can give birth through a sperm bank. According to NEWSKOREA, lesbian couple gave birth quintuplets[1] through artificial insemination in Australia. As a result, Korea has no occasion to restrict homosexual marriage and should legalize it in the near future.

  

Figure 1. 김조광수-김승환 couple

Figure 2. The number of homosexual in Korea

Figure 3. Lesbian couple and quintuplets

[1] Quintuplets : A group or set of five similar things

Citation

- 금관가야. (2015, July 21). 동성결혼 합법화 찬성 법률. Retrieved Nov 28, 2015, from http://kin.naver.com/qna/detail.nhn?d1id=6&dirId=602&docId=229686900&qb=64 Z7ISx6rKw7Zi8IO2Vqeuyle2ZlCDssKzshLE=&enc=utf8§ion=kin&rank=1&search_sort=0&spq=0&pid=SDEpzwoRR2sssa6RjWRssssssso-155455&sid=wxenFYOfeeZpb3KEiUjv0Q==

- Unknown. (2011, August 26). 한국의 동성애자 실태. Retrieved November 28, 2015, from http://kin.naver.com/qna/detail.nhn?d1id=6&dirId=61003&docId=135808478&qb=64 Z7ISx7JWg7J6Q66W8IOychO2VnCDshLjqs4TsnZgg64W466Cl&enc=utf8§ion=kin&rank=1&search_sort=0&spq=0&pid=SDErPwoRR10ssaKIeLVssssssts-510833&sid=wxenFYOfeeZpb3KEiUjv0Q==

 

- 예진, 장. (2014, September 4). '고학력 여성' 자녀수 늘어...전체 가구당 자녀수는 감소. Retrieved December 9, 2015, from http://www.yonhapnews.co.kr/bulletin/2015/05/09/0200000000AKR20150509006000072.HTML

 

- Quintuplet. (n.d.). In Collins English Dictionary (30th Anniversary Edition ed.).

- Figure 1 : Unknown. (2013, September 7). 김조광수-김승환, '우리 사랑 영원히~' Retrieved November 28, 2015, from http://www.newsis.com/pict_detail/view.html?pict_id=NISI20130907_0008624378

- Figure 2 :홍식, 엄. (2015, December 9). Should Korea Restrict a Homosexual Marriage? Retrieved December 9, 2015, from http://eomhongsik.blogspot.kr/2015/11/should-korea-restrict-homosexual.html

 

- Figura 3 : 효양, 안. (2011, March 8). ‘엄마가 둘’ 다섯 쌍둥이 얻은 레즈비언 부부. Retrieved December 9, 2015, from http://m.newskorea.info/news/articleView.html?idxno=10130

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Knowledge from Blog Post

          I wrote lots of blog posts and comments in this semester. This gives me many knowledge productions and ownerships. First, I learned about paragraph form. Before writing blog post, I don’t know how to write correct English paragraph. By writing blog post, I can fallow paragraph form like indent now. Second, I am able to know the basic rules of grammar like FANBOYS and capitalize. I knew that title and people name have to use capitalize, but I didn’t know others. In my first blogpost, my capitalize mistakes pointed out three times. Using correct grammar made my paragraph more concise and clear. Third, I am able to remind about knowledge ownership. When I was 16 years old, I uploaded novel that other person wrote on internet site. It is illegality, but I didn’t know about that. The novel was discovered, so I paid large fine about 700,000 won. By writing blog post and citation, I realize about knowledge ownership. Writing something is very difficult work. Therefore, we have to respect other people’s paragraph and sentence. When use other people’s text, we will have to by using citation. Finally, I gained lots of knowledge productions and ownerships through blog post. It was very useful and helpful assignment