South Korean court recognises spousal coverage of state insurance for same-sex couple -Yonhap

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A South Korean court on Tuesday recognised spousal coverage of state health insurance for a same-sex couple in a landmark verdict, overturning a lower court's ruling that said the union cannot be considered a common law couple under current law, South Korea's Yonhap news agency reported.

The Seoul High Court's ruling is the court's "first recognition of the legal status of a same-sex couple," lawyer Park Han-hee, who represented the plaintiff, said, according to Yonhap.The plaintiff, So Sung-wook, filed a suit against the National Health Insurance Service in 2021 after the state health insurer denied his rights to receive spousal coverage despite granting such rights to other common law couples.

A lower court had said a same-sex union cannot be considered a common law marriage under current law and ruled in favour of the insurer.

 

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