{"id":66554,"date":"2024-09-04T09:16:29","date_gmt":"2024-09-04T00:16:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/sep\/04\/typhoons-have-prevented-me-going-to-school-the-children-behind-south-koreas-landmark-climate-win"},"modified":"2024-09-04T09:16:29","modified_gmt":"2024-09-04T00:16:29","slug":"typhoons-have-prevented-me-going-to-school-the-children-behind-south-koreas-landmark-climate-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=66554","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Typhoons have prevented me going to school\u2019: The children behind South Korea\u2019s landmark climate win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hannah Kim, eight, and Jeah Han, 12, are part of a group of activists that won a four-year fight to tackle climate inaction. For them, it is just the beginning<\/p>\n<p>Hannah Kim, eight, was just starting primary school when she joined the \u201cbaby climate litigation\u201d to force South Korea\u2019s government to protect the rights of future generations against the dangers of the climate crisis.<\/p>\n<p>Now, with high school still some way off, she is toasting success after winning her part in a four-year legal battle that has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/aug\/29\/south-korea-court-climate-law-violates-rights-future-generations\">set a significant precedent<\/a> for climate-related legal action in Asia.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/sep\/04\/typhoons-have-prevented-me-going-to-school-the-children-behind-south-koreas-landmark-climate-win\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hannah Kim, eight, and Jeah Han, 12, are part of a group of activists that won a four-year fight to tackle climate inaction. For them, it is just the beginningHannah Kim, eight, was just starting primary school when she joined the \u201cbaby climate litigat&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2929,"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":[41,2331,65,222],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-climate-crisis","category-environment","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\/66554","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\/2929"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66554"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66555,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66554\/revisions\/66555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}