Rights body says Ewha film festival cancellation violated expression
The National Human Rights Commission of Korea said the canceled venue rental for a Queer Film Festival at Ewha Womans University was discriminatory, KBS reported.
The National Human Rights Commission of Korea(국가인권위원회) said on July 15, 2026, that Ewha Womans University's cancellation of a venue rental for a Queer Film Festival last year amounted to discrimination, KBS reported.
The commission said that even a school founded by a religious organization should not exclude or discriminate against social minorities by citing its founding philosophy and university autonomy. It concluded that the freedom of expression of sexual minorities had been excessively infringed.
The case involved the organizing committee for the Seoul Queer Culture Festival, which signed a venue rental contract last April with an independent movie theater on the Ewha Womans University campus.
Ewha Womans University later requested that the rental be canceled, saying it conflicted with the university's founding philosophy. The contract was ultimately canceled.
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