Lim Tae-hoon

For the baseball player, see Im Tae-hoon.
Lim Tae-hoon
Born (1975-10-09) October 9, 1975
Yeongju, Gyeongsangbuk-do, South Korea
Residence Seoul, South Korea
Nationality South Korea
Alma mater Sungkonghoe University
Occupation Human rights defender, Center for Military Human Rights Korea (Representative)
Religion Roman Catholic
Korean name
Hangul 임태훈
Hanja 林泰勳
Revised Romanization Im Taehun
McCune–Reischauer Im T'aehun

Lim Tae-hoon (Hangul: 임태훈; Hanja: 林泰勳; born 9 October 1975 in Yeongju, South Korea) is a human rights defender and lecturer of Kangwon University. He has been committed to women, youth, homosexuals issues along with rights of conscientious objection, soldiers, conscripted police, riot police and so on. He was the first head of Solidarity for LGBT Huamn Rights of Korea (http://www.lgbtpride.or.kr/) from 1998 to 2002. From 2004 to 2005, he was imprisoned for his conscientious objection to the military service of the Rep. of Korea which classifies homosexuality as a type of mental disorder and criminalizes consented homosexual intercourse by Article 92 of Military Criminal Act. The Amnesty International endowed the status of conscientious objector to him for this activity. After that he continued human rights activities related to the military issues. Then in 2009 finally he established the Center for Military Human Rights Korea(CMHRK, www.mhrk.org); he is a current representative. CMHRK focuses on counseling victims of human rights infringement cases within the military including sexual violence, bullying and beating. He was awarded for revealing the truth of late PFC Yoon's death case from the National Council of Churches in Korea(NCCK) in 2014.


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