{"id":75671,"date":"2025-12-19T14:38:39","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T05:38:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/dec\/19\/south-korean-president-urges-public-health-cover-hair-loss"},"modified":"2025-12-19T19:39:27","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T10:39:27","slug":"matter-of-survival-south-korean-president-urges-public-health-cover-for-hair-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=75671","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Matter of survival\u2019: South Korean president urges public health cover for hair loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Medical professionals and some in conservative circles feel argument of Lee Jae Myung may be a bit thin<\/p>\n<p>South Korean president Lee Jae Myung has instructed his government to consider extending public health insurance to cover hair-loss treatments, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yna.co.kr\/view\/AKR20251216101551001\">arguing<\/a> that baldness has become a \u201cmatter of survival\u201d rather than a cosmetic concern for young people.<\/p>\n<p>The proposal, which has since faced a backlash from medical professionals and conservative figures, was announced during a policy briefing on Tuesday and would expand coverage beyond the limited medical treatments currently available for certain types of hair loss.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/dec\/19\/south-korean-president-urges-public-health-cover-hair-loss\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Medical professionals and some in conservative circles feel argument of Lee Jae Myung may be a bit thinSouth Korean president Lee Jae Myung has instructed his government to consider extending public health insurance to cover hair-loss treatments, argui&#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":[41,3332,3470,222],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-lee-jae-myung","category-mens-hair","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\/75671","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=75671"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75677,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75671\/revisions\/75677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}