To go with 'SKOREA-CLIMATE-YOUTH, FOCUS' by Hieun SHIN
Lee Dong-hyun and her son, 19-month-old Choi Hee-woo, stand among other activists outside the Constitutional Court in Seoul on May 21, 2024, ahead of the final public hearing of a climate lawsuit against the South Korean government, for which Hee-woo is the youngest plaintiff. When he was a 20-weeks-old embryo -- before he even had a real name -- Choi Hee-woo became one of the world's youngest ever plaintiffs by joining a groundbreaking climate lawsuit against South Korea. His case, known as 'Woodpecker et al. v. South Korea' after Choi's in utero nickname, seeks to prove Seoul's modest climate goals -- reducing carbon emissions by 40 percent of 2018 levels by 2030 -- are unconstitutional and violate their human rights. (Photo by Anthony WALLACE / AFP) / To go with 'SKOREA-CLIMATE-YOUTH, FOCUS' by Hieun SHIN