{"id":17228,"date":"2020-04-16T12:50:17","date_gmt":"2020-04-16T03:50:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/apr\/16\/south-koreas-ruling-party-wins-election-landslide-amid-coronavirus-outbreak"},"modified":"2020-04-16T12:50:17","modified_gmt":"2020-04-16T03:50:17","slug":"south-koreas-ruling-party-wins-election-landslide-amid-coronavirus-outbreak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=17228","title":{"rendered":"South Korea&#8217;s ruling party wins election landslide amid coronavirus outbreak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Voters reward Moon Jae-in for response to pandemic with biggest majority since transition to democracy in 1987<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/coronavirus-live\/latest\">Coronavirus \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>South Korea\u2019s ruling party has won a landslide victory in national assembly elections, in what is being seen as an endorsement of President Moon Jae-in\u2019s response to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">coronavirus pandemic<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Moon\u2019s left-leaning Democratic party and its smaller affiliate won 180 seats in the 300-seat assembly \u2013 the biggest majority in the national assembly by any party since South Korea\u2019s transition to democracy in 1987 \u2013 according to the Yonhap news agency. The conservative opposition United Future party and its smaller sister party won 103 seats.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/apr\/16\/south-koreas-ruling-party-wins-election-landslide-amid-coronavirus-outbreak\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Voters reward Moon Jae-in for response to pandemic with biggest majority since transition to democracy in 1987Coronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageSouth Korea\u2019s ruling party has won a landslide victory in national assembly electi&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1213,"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":[41,1069,914,299,222,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-infectious-diseases","category-science","category-south-korea","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17228","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\/1213"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17228"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17229,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17228\/revisions\/17229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}