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After the creation of Come Together, Seoul National University established another activist group called "Maum001" meaning "Heart 1% (1% of homosexual rights achieved). A loosely organized homosexual group Ch'odonghoe which was created a year before in 1994, was split into a gay group and a lesbian group, into stronger, more cohesive forces on their own.
As evident, the organizational forces of gays in Korea were bursting out just around 1995. There are two factors, one of the past and one of the then-current that I think attributes to this outburst.
The modern factor is the commercialization of internet. Korea, being the technologically centered country it is, was quick to implement the internet. Seoul is even called the "Bandwidth capital of the world." Today, South Korea has the highest ratio of DSL connections per head worldwide. Coincidentally, the internet boom also picked up rapid speed around the mid 1990s, as evident by the chart below:
Number of websites, Dec 90 to Jan 96
Number of websites
Dec 90
1
Dec 91
10
Dec 92
50
Jun 93
Oct 93
Dec 93
Jun 94
2,738
Dec 94
10,022
Jun 95
23,500
Jan 96
100,000
-http://royal.pingdom.com/2008/04/04/how-we-got-from-1-to-162-million-websites-on-the-internet/
Internet became an instant fascination in Korea and contributed its own number of sites to the world.
Internet did two things for gays in Korea: they could observe and be inspired by the gay community in the United States, and the gays could find other gays and realize the existence of people like them. The Korean gay community solidified thanks to the internet and it also found a spark from the activism in the States, as evident by rapid emergences of gay forums such as heavengay.com and toshare.com. For the first time for Korean gays, they had a safe, yet public outlet for their voice. They felt more confident, they felt more united. As Seo said, "At present, homosexuals generally do not hesitate to call themselves gay, and unlike before, from the time they first call themselves ay, they become aware of their own sexual identity.
"This is because a new homosexual community has arisen." And this rise created a tension between the procreative forces and the non-procreative forces.
Then on another point, Seo writes "it must be pointed out that these lesbian and gay communities are still centered around people in their twenties and early thirties."
Why this particular age group? Having a college network, especially during the time college activist groups, could play its part but then why the thirties who aren't in college, but not the forties and the fifties?
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