Lim Tae-hoon (Korean: 임태훈; Hanja: 林泰勳; born 9 October 1975 in Yeongju, South Korea) is a human rights defender and was a lecturer of Kangwon University.
He has been committed to women, youth, sexual minority issues along with rights of conscientious objection, soldiers, riot police and so on.
He specifically objected to the criteria for conscription examination which classifies homosexuality as a type of mental disorder and criminalizes consented homosexual intercourse of two male soldiers under Article 92 of Military Criminal Act (as of 2020, it is Art.
He has participated in the governance body set up by the Ministry of National Defense, after the tragic death of late Army First Class Yoon Seungjoo in 2014 (The attackers were found guilty though the responsible officers were not charged).
Later he was recommended by the National Assembly to be appointed as a Member of the Military Service Policy Deliberation Committee under the Defense Minister in 2018 to 2019, during which he enforced the lifting the ban on enlisted soldier's mobile phone use.