Leisure woman in promoting family concept expansion
That can coexist in various forms
Voice for legal and institutional maintenance requests
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“It would be nice to have a guardian even if I don’t get married. If I get sick later when I get older, I’m most worried about who can sign a guardian at the hospital.” Woo Ji-won (26), a job-prepared student who said he was a non-marriage, said, “Even those who choose not to marry should be able to enjoy the least protective net such as medical care and housing.” “I want to live with some close same-sex friends after my 50s. Various people can live together like a family, and I think government support is needed.” Recently, the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family (Ministry of Leisure and Family) announced that it is promoting a plan to include households that were not recognized as’family’ in the existing government policies such as non-marriage or cohabitation, and improved laws and systems so that various types of families can coexist. The voice of the need to improve awareness is strengthened. Those who have struggled in our society, where most of the social safety nets such as welfare, housing, and medical benefits are organized around’heterosexual couples and children’, express their anticipation at the presentation of the Ministry of Leisure and Affairs. A 35-year-old Jo Amugae, who has been living with a same-sex lover for eight years, said, “You can be recognized as a family even if you live together for a long period of time, such as when receiving a jeonse loan loan, receiving emergency surgery at a hospital, or not being granted health insurance dependent status. There were a lot of inconveniences,” he said. “The announcement of the Ministry of Leisure and Home Affairs is a positive change in that it can break the illusion of a’normal family’ and expand the scope of protection for living together.” Song Cho-rong, 34, who is bisexual, complained that “from property to the funeral after death, all matters revolve around the marriage relationship, so people in various residential community relationships cannot be guaranteed their rights.” They also hope that if the government expands the scope of family recognition, not only legal protection but also social awareness of LGBTI people and living together will improve. Song said, “Since there are many real estate brokers who feel strange when signing a housing contract for living together with LGBTQ people, they introduce a real estate that does not reveal hate to LGBTQ people.” “The government broadly recognizes the scope of the family and, furthermore, life partners When the law is made, we expect that discrimination in our lives will also decrease.” Amugae Kim (27), who lived with her partner through a domestic partner visa in the Netherlands, said, “I was able to receive institutional benefits such as paying tuition fees like local residents, and I felt that I received some legal and institutional protection for the relationship.” In addition to marriage, there is now a need for other options to be recognized by the state.” The announcement of the Ministry of Leisure and Affairs came from the reality that the number of single-person households is increasing, the marriage rate, and families with children are gradually decreasing. In order for the’diversified family’ to become a reality, legislation such as amendment of the Civil Act, the Family Relations Act, and the enactment of the Living Partner Act is necessary. Kim Ji-young, a professor at Konkuk University’s Body Culture Research Institute, said, “Only those who have entered the’normal family’ ideology of a family of 3 or 4 are monopolizing welfare, housing, tax, and medical benefits. It is evaluated as a way to well accommodate the changes of the times. However, the most important question is how far it can be legalized.” By Kim Yoon-joo and Kang Jae-gu, staff reporters [email protected]