{"id":18592,"date":"2020-05-23T16:00:47","date_gmt":"2020-05-23T07:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/may\/23\/could-a-green-new-deal-turn-south-korea-from-climate-villain-to-model"},"modified":"2020-05-23T16:00:47","modified_gmt":"2020-05-23T07:00:47","slug":"could-a-green-new-deal-turn-south-korea-from-climate-villain-to-model","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=18592","title":{"rendered":"Could a green new deal turn South Korea from climate villain to model?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Country\u2019s youngest MP is on a mission, inspired by Greta Thunberg, as climate moves up political agenda<\/p>\n<p>A year ago, Soyoung Lee was one of a crowd of climate activists demonstrating on the streets of Seoul in a campaign inspired by the global school strike founder Greta Thunberg.<\/p>\n<p>Today, the 35-year-old lawyer is the youngest member of the South Korean parliament and a driving force in the government\u2019s green new deal, which aims to create millions of jobs in renewable energy and help the economy recover from the coronavirus lockdown.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/may\/23\/could-a-green-new-deal-turn-south-korea-from-climate-villain-to-model\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Country\u2019s youngest MP is on a mission, inspired by Greta Thunberg, as climate moves up political agendaA year ago, Soyoung Lee was one of a crowd of climate activists demonstrating on the streets of Seoul in a campaign inspired by the global school str&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":431,"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":[41,326,65,767,492,564,222,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-climate-change","category-environment","category-environmental-activism","category-fossil-fuels","category-greenhouse-gas-emissions","category-south-korea","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\/18592","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\/431"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18592"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18592\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18593,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18592\/revisions\/18593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}