The two children whose bodies were found in a suitcase in an Auckland storage unit in 2022 can now be named.
Minu Jo, 6 and Yuna Jo, 8, were the children of Hakyung Lee, 42, who is accused of murdering them.
Lee is facing two charges of murder and arrived in New Zealand in November last year after being extradited from South Korea.
She pleaded not guilty to the charges in December and the trial date has been set for April 2024.
Lee was previously declined name suppression at the High Court and earllier in the year the Court of Appeal also ruled against it.
The two children had name suppression based on applications from wider family members but Coroner Tania Tetitaha discharged the order on Monday.
Tetitaha said since the children were granted name supression the circustmaces have changed, pointing to Lee being named.
"I understand from the Crown Solicitor that it is unlikely these applicant witnesses would meet the criteria for a nonpublication order given the publication of the mother’s name," the coroner said.
Concluding, "The interests of justice favour setting aside the interim order in the circumstances. There seems little value or need for continuing an interim nonpublication order in the Coroners Court."
In September last year, South Korean police arrested Lee who was "hiding in an apartment" in the city of Ulsan.
The Korean Ministry of Justice received a request from New Zealand for her provisional arrest in connection with the death of the children.
The woman told Korean reporters as she was bundled into a car: "I didn't do it."
It was a major development almost 10,000 kilometres away from the south Auckland suburb of Manurewa where the children's bodies were first discovered in suitcases.
In August, the human remains of two children were discovered at an address on Moncrieff Ave in the south Auckland suburb of Manurewa.
Newshub later revealed the remains were unknowingly taken by a family to their Manurewa home who'd bid and won an auction for abandoned goods in a SafeStore Papatoetoe storage facility.
The children had been dead for a long time. Police said the suitcases had been in storage in Auckland for at least three or four years.
