April 2008. The first lesbian ever who had courage to come out as a lesbian politician ever since the inception of korea. Her name: CHOI Hyun-suk. She is a member of the New Progressive Party with the election number of 6. <The Time of Our Lives> talks about various issued arising from her challenge and the trail-blazing fourteen days this lesbian politician spent on the campaign trail. CHOI’s political challenge goes beyond the issue of individual comingout. She put...more

April 2008. The first lesbian ever who had courage to come out as a lesbian politician ever since the inception of korea. Her name: CHOI Hyun-suk. She is a member of the New Progressive Party with the election number of 6. <The Time of Our Lives> talks about various issued arising from her challenge and the trail-blazing fourteen days this lesbian politician spent on the campaign trail. CHOI’s political challenge goes beyond the issue of individual comingout. She put her sexuality out in front not to reveal her sexual orientation but to find out what it means to be a lesbian and where the sexual minority is vis-à-vis contemporary Korean society. Through this courageous challenge of CHOI and witnessing the barriers that reality has forced her to face, we come to ponder on such issues as how to ‘visualize’ the sexual minorities, how to extend queer issues into greater social sphere, how to shape queer’s political involvement, and how to popularize the queer movement in Korea.
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