{"id":15330,"date":"2020-03-02T23:31:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-02T14:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2020\/mar\/02\/south-korea-sect-leader-asks-forgiveness-coronavirus-surge-shincheonji-video"},"modified":"2020-03-02T23:31:00","modified_gmt":"2020-03-02T14:31:00","slug":"south-korea-sect-leader-asks-for-forgiveness-over-coronavirus-surge-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=15330","title":{"rendered":"South Korea sect leader asks for forgiveness over coronavirus surge \u2013 video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lee Man-hee, the reclusive founder of the Shincheonji Church at the centre of South Korea\u2019s coronavirus outbreak, has apologised over the virus\u2019s spread. The church became the target of public anger after one of its members, known as Patient 31, tested positive for the virus and infected many others. Lee said the church had tried to prevent the spread of the virus among its members. He spoke a day after the Seoul city government asked prosecutors to begin a murder investigation into him<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2020\/mar\/02\/coronavirus-live-updates-china-latest-news-us-australia-deaths-markets-italy-iran-update-cases\">Coronavirus \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/mar\/02\/coronavirus-expect-widespread-infection-in-uk-fairly-soon-warns-health-official\">Expect widespread infection in UK \u2018fairly soon\u2019, warns health official<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2020\/mar\/02\/south-korea-sect-leader-asks-forgiveness-coronavirus-surge-shincheonji-video\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lee Man-hee, the reclusive founder of the Shincheonji Church at the centre of South Korea\u2019s coronavirus outbreak, has apologised over the virus\u2019s spread. The church became the target of public anger after one of its members, known as Patient 31, tested&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"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":[41,1069,222],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus-outbreak","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\/15330","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\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15330"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15331,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15330\/revisions\/15331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}