{"id":52806,"date":"2023-02-21T15:58:26","date_gmt":"2023-02-21T06:58:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/feb\/21\/south-korean-court-recognises-legal-status-of-same-sex-couples-for-first-time"},"modified":"2023-02-21T15:58:26","modified_gmt":"2023-02-21T06:58:26","slug":"south-korean-court-recognises-legal-status-of-same-sex-couples-for-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=52806","title":{"rendered":"South Korean court recognises legal status of same-sex couples for first time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seoul high court rules gay couple allowed same health insurance rights as heterosexual couple in landmark case<\/p>\n<p>A court in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/south-korea\">South Korea<\/a> has ruled that same-sex couples are entitled to the same spousal coverage under the national health insurance service as heterosexual couples \u2013 the first time the country has recognised the legal status of a gay partner.<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday\u2019s landmark decision by the Seoul high court overturned a previous ruling by a lower court in January 2022 that rejected a gay couple\u2019s petition after one partner was told he had to make separate health insurance payments.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/feb\/21\/south-korean-court-recognises-legal-status-of-same-sex-couples-for-first-time\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seoul high court rules gay couple allowed same health insurance rights as heterosexual couple in landmark caseA court in South Korea has ruled that same-sex couples are entitled to the same spousal coverage under the national health insurance service a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":151,"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":[2729,222],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lgbtq-rights","category-south-korea"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52806","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\/151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52806"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52807,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52806\/revisions\/52807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}