Reuters
SEOUL (Reuters) -The Seoul Queer Culture Festival will take place in the capital's streets this year, organisers of South Korea's annual LGBTQ gathering said on Tuesday, after the city government denied their requests to hold events at four locations. For the second year in a row, the panel overseeing events in the Seoul Plaza at city hall declined the request to hold the festival, though it has been held there every year since 2015, except for the COVID-19 pandemic. "I think Seoul city is focusing on events that only suit its taste," Yang Sun-woo, chief organiser of the festival, which draws tens of thousands of people, said in a telephone interview.