Kim-Jho Gwang-soo, "I'm fifty this year; I wish our marriage is accepted before I die"

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Kim-Jho Gwang-soo expressed his frustration.

The trial for the country's first gay marriage was help on the 6th in Mapo, Seoul. The Kim-Jho Gwang-soo and Kim Seung-hwan couple held a press conference after the trial and said in tears that they want their marriage to be accepted.

Kim-Jho Gwang-soo said, "I announced on SNS that I wouldn't try at court but I did. Last year, Kim Seung-hwan and I went to a movie festival and watched something called, "The Limited Partnership". It was an American documentary about a gay couple proceeding with trial like us to be acknowledged as a married couple. They fought for 38 years".

Kim-Jho Gwang-soo continued, "In 2013, the American Supreme Court ruled that their gay marriage was illegal and that the state laws violated the laws of the constitution. The two of them were legally 'married' after 38 years but sadly, one of them passed away in 2012. He had fought for 37 years and hadn't seen the end of it before he passed away. I thought of myself. It's 37 years. I worry that it might take us that long too".

"I'm already fifty years old this year. If it takes 37 years I'll be 87 by then. They say gays die 30 years earlier than straight people but if that were true, then considering the average life expectancy in Korea is 80, and I am going to die 30 years earlier, I might not have much time left. I told the judge to please accept us as married before I die. I begged him not to take 37 years to rule a decision".

Meanwhile, Kim-Jho Gwang-soo and Kim Seung-hwan got married in September of 2013 publicly. They tried to register themselves married on the 10th of December but were denied. On the 21st of May 2014, they filed a case for being denied registration by the Seodaemun-gu Office and the first trial was held on the 6th of July.