{"id":1720,"date":"2015-03-08T17:50:52","date_gmt":"2015-03-08T22:50:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/?p=1720"},"modified":"2015-03-08T17:50:52","modified_gmt":"2015-03-08T22:50:52","slug":"first-lesbian-kiss-on-south-korean-television","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/archives\/1720","title":{"rendered":"First Lesbian Kiss on South Korean Television"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By Ashley R. Lierman<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Body: Two characters kissed on the drama &#8220;Seonam Girls High School Investigators&#8221; last week, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pinknews.co.uk\/2015\/03\/01\/first-lesbian-kiss-on-south-korean-tv-sparks-complaints\/\">PinkNews reports<\/a>. This is thought to mark the first same-sex kiss between women on South Korean television. Even similar moments from Western television have previously been edited out before broadcast in South Korea (for example, a kiss between two female characters on the BBC&#8217;s Doctor Who).<\/p>\n<p>While the milestone may be cause for celebration, however, it has also sparked a backlash from some conservative viewers, who have claimed the content was in violation of broadcast standards and called for action by national media regulators:<\/p>\n<p>The Korea Communications Standards Commission said: &#8220;We will decide whether this is an issue after we look into it, and whether there is any violation of broadcast policy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The creators of the show have defended the kiss as &#8220;necessary to the plot.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ashley R. Lierman Body: Two characters kissed on the drama &#8220;Seonam Girls High School Investigators&#8221; last week, PinkNews reports. This is thought to mark the first same-sex kiss between women on South Korean television. Even similar moments from Western television have previously been edited out before broadcast in South Korea (for example, a kiss [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":1721,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-carousel","category-media-of-note"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1720\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}