{"id":157048,"date":"2026-06-30T16:19:37","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T23:19:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=157048"},"modified":"2026-06-30T16:19:37","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T23:19:37","slug":"buddhists-in-south-korea-rally-against-govt-religious-bias","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2026\/06\/30\/buddhists-in-south-korea-rally-against-govt-religious-bias\/","title":{"rendered":"Buddhists in South Korea rally against gov&#8217;t &#8216;religious bias&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"container\" class=\"style-scope ytd-channel-name\">\n<h2 id=\"text-container\" class=\"style-scope ytd-channel-name\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><a class=\"yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string\" style=\"color: #0000ff;\" spellcheck=\"false\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@aljazeeraenglish\">Al Jazeera English<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>n South Korea, Buddhist monks and clergy are rallying against what they call religious bias\u201d within the government. They are demanding a personal apology from the president for remarks made by a member of his government last year. The governing Democratic Party has apologised several times after a member of the National Assembly Culture, Sports and Tourism Committee criticised Buddhist temples for charging visitors an entrance fee and compared the heritage administration to a folklore conman, but the protesters say that is not enough.<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Buddhists in South Korea rally against gov&#039;t &#039;religious bias&#039;\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mBq3OL1MjlA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Al Jazeera English n South Korea, Buddhist monks and clergy are rallying against what they call religious bias\u201d within the government. They are demanding a personal apology from the president for remarks made by a member of his government last year. The governing Democratic Party has apologised several times after a member of the National [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-157048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-buddhism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157048"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":157049,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157048\/revisions\/157049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}