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5th PRIDE Award Recipient
Tony HONG (TV Personality & Actor)
Hong Seok-cheon was the first celebrity in South Korea to publicly come out as gay. Since revealing his identity on September 26, 2000, he has played a significant role in advancing public awareness and understanding of LGBTQ+ rights in Korean society. His coming out is widely regarded as a historic moment that brought LGBTQ+ visibility into the mainstream cultural landscape.
Hong first gained widespread popularity through the sitcom Three Guys and Three Girls, where he played the designer character “Ppusong.” Following his public coming out, however, he faced discrimination and prejudice that significantly limited his broadcasting activities. Despite these challenges, he continued his career without concealing his identity and remained an outspoken advocate as a member of the LGBTQ+ community.
Since the 2010s, Hong has reconnected with the public through a variety of entertainment and current affairs programs, establishing himself as the most widely recognized openly LGBTQ+ public figure in South Korea. More recently, through his YouTube channel Hong Seok-cheon’s Jewel Box, he has introduced emerging male actors while helping to create a safer and more supportive environment for LGBTQ+ people and other minorities pursuing careers in the entertainment industry.
ํ์์ฒ (๋ฐฉ์ก์ธ·๋ฐฐ์ฐ)
๋ํ๋ฏผ๊ตญ์์ ์ต์ด๋ก ๊ณต๊ฐ ์ปค๋ฐ์์ํ ์ฐ์์ธ์ผ๋ก, 2000๋ 9์ 26์ผ ์์ ์ ์ ์ฒด์ฑ์ ๋ฐํ ์ดํ ํ๊ตญ ์ฌํ ์ฑ์์์ ์ธ๊ถ ์ธ์์ ์ค์ํ ์ ํ์ ์ ๋ง๋ค์ด ์์ต๋๋ค. ๊ทธ์ ์ปค๋ฐ์์์ ๋์ค๋ฌธํ ์์ญ์์ ์ฑ์์์์ ์กด์ฌ๋ฅผ ๊ฐ์ํํ ์ญ์ฌ์ ์ฌ๊ฑด์ผ๋ก ํ๊ฐ๋ฉ๋๋ค.
์ํธ์ฝค ใ๋จ์ ์ ์ฌ์ ์ ใ์์ ๋์์ด๋ ‘๋ฟ์ก’ ์ญ์ผ๋ก ๋์ค์ ์ธ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ์ป์์ผ๋, ์ปค๋ฐ์์ ์ดํ ์ฐจ๋ณ๊ณผ ํธ๊ฒฌ ์์์ ๋ฐฉ์ก ํ๋์ ์ ์ฝ์ ๊ฒช๊ฒ ๋์์ต๋๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ผ์๋ ๋ถ๊ตฌํ๊ณ ์์ ์ ์ ์ฒด์ฑ์ ์จ๊ธฐ์ง ์๊ณ ํ๋์ ์ด์ด๊ฐ๋ฉฐ, ์ฑ์์์ ๋น์ฌ์๋ก์ ์ฌํ์ ๋ฐ์ธ์ ์ง์ํด ์์ต๋๋ค.
2010๋ ๋ ์ดํ ์๋ฅ ๋ฐ ์์ฌ ํ๋ก๊ทธ๋จ์ ํตํด ๋ค์ ๋์ค๊ณผ ๋ง๋๋ฉฐ, ํ๊ตญ ์ฌํ์์ ๊ฐ์ฅ ์ ์๋ ค์ง ๊ณต๊ฐ ์ปค๋ฐ์์ ์ธ๋ฌผ๋ก ์๋ฆฌ๋งค๊นํ์ต๋๋ค. ์ต๊ทผ์๋ ์ ํ๋ธ ์ฑ๋ ใํ์์ฒ์ ๋ณด์ํจใ์ ํตํด ์ ์ธ ๋จ์ฑ ๋ฐฐ์ฐ๋ฅผ ์๊ฐํ๊ณ , ์ฑ์์์ ๋ฐ ์์์ ํ๋ฐฐ๋ค์ด ๋ณด๋ค ์์ ํ๊ฒ ํ๋ํ ์ ์๋ ํ๊ฒฝ์ ๋ง๋๋ ๋ฐ ํ์ฐ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค.
์ด๋ ฅ
๋ฐฐ์ฐ, ๋ฐฉ์ก์ธ
์ ํ๋ธ ์ฑ๋ ใํ์์ฒ์ ๋ณด์ํจใ ์ด์
๋ํ๋ฏผ๊ตญ ์ต์ด ๊ณต๊ฐ ์ปค๋ฐ์์ ์ฐ์์ธ
์ฃผ์ ํ๋
2000๋ ๋ํ๋ฏผ๊ตญ ์ต์ด ๊ณต๊ฐ ์ปค๋ฐ์์
์ฑ์์์ ๊ฐ์์ฑ ํ๋ ๋ฐ ์ธ์ ๊ฐ์ ์ ๊ธฐ์ฌ
์ฑ์์์ ๋ฐ ์ ์ธ ๋ฐฐ์ฐ ๋ฉํ ๋ง ํ๋ ์ง์
Profile
- Actor and Television Personality
- Host of the YouTube Channel Hong Seok-cheon’s Jewel Box
- First Publicly Out LGBTQ+ Celebrity in South Korea
Key Contributions
- First Public Coming Out by a Celebrity in South Korea (2000)
- Contributed to Expanding LGBTQ+ Visibility and Public Awareness
- Ongoing Mentorship and Support for LGBTQ+ People and Emerging Actors