{"id":17160,"date":"2020-04-14T14:43:16","date_gmt":"2020-04-14T05:43:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/apr\/14\/south-koreas-first-feminist-party-holds-out-hope-of-election-miracle"},"modified":"2020-04-14T14:43:16","modified_gmt":"2020-04-14T05:43:16","slug":"south-koreas-first-feminist-party-holds-out-hope-of-election-miracle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=17160","title":{"rendered":"South Korea&#8217;s first feminist party holds out hope of election miracle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Formation of the Women\u2019s party comes after campaigns to end spy cam porn and rebellions against strict beauty standards in the conservative nation<\/p>\n<p>Two years year after South Korea became the centre of Asia\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/metoo-movement\">#MeToo movement<\/a>, the country\u2019s first feminist party is hoping to keep women\u2019s issues on the political agenda by winning seats in Wednesday\u2019s national assembly elections.<\/p>\n<p>In a campaign <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/apr\/14\/south-korea-votes-in-first-national-election-of-coronavirus-era\">dominated by the government\u2019s response to the coronavirus epidemic<\/a>, the newly formed Women\u2019s party has warned that South Korea\u2019s poor record on sexual discrimination and violence risked being overlooked.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/apr\/14\/south-koreas-first-feminist-party-holds-out-hope-of-election-miracle\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Formation of the Women\u2019s party comes after campaigns to end spy cam porn and rebellions against strict beauty standards in the conservative nationTwo years year after South Korea became the centre of Asia\u2019s #MeToo movement, the country\u2019s first feminist&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":966,"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":[41,222,281,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-south-korea","category-women","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17160","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\/966"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17160"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17161,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17160\/revisions\/17161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}