{"id":29228,"date":"2021-03-04T09:35:04","date_gmt":"2021-03-04T00:35:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/mar\/04\/south-koreas-first-transgender-soldier-found-dead"},"modified":"2021-03-04T09:35:04","modified_gmt":"2021-03-04T00:35:04","slug":"south-koreas-first-transgender-soldier-found-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=29228","title":{"rendered":"South Korea&#8217;s first transgender soldier found dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police investigate death of Byun Hee-soo, who was forced out of military after becoming first soldier to have gender reassignment surgery <\/p>\n<p>South Korea\u2019s first transgender soldier, who was forcibly discharged after having gender reassignment surgery, has been found dead, news agency Yonhap has reported.<\/p>\n<p>Firefighters found Byun Hee-soo, 23, in her home in Cheongju, south of Seoul, after a mental health counsellor called emergency services to report that she had not been heard from since Sunday, the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.yna.co.kr\/view\/AEN20210303009351320\">agency reported<\/a> on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/mar\/04\/south-koreas-first-transgender-soldier-found-dead\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police investigate death of Byun Hee-soo, who was forced out of military after becoming first soldier to have gender reassignment surgery South Korea\u2019s first transgender soldier, who was forcibly discharged after having gender reassignment surgery, has&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,222,572],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-south-korea","category-transgender"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29228"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29229,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29228\/revisions\/29229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}