{"id":18768,"date":"2020-05-28T12:47:03","date_gmt":"2020-05-28T03:47:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/may\/28\/south-korea-faces-return-to-coronavirus-restrictions-after-spike-in-new-cases"},"modified":"2020-05-28T19:53:02","modified_gmt":"2020-05-28T10:53:02","slug":"south-korea-could-face-return-to-coronavirus-restrictions-after-spike-in-new-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=18768","title":{"rendered":"South Korea re-imposes some coronavirus restrictions after spike in new cases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Museums, parks, and art galleries will all be closed again from Friday for two weeks, with authorities struggling to identify transmission routes<\/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><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/south-korea\">South Korea<\/a> has reimplemented strict lockdown measures in the capital Seoul following the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/may\/28\/south-korea-faces-return-to-coronavirus-restrictions-after-spike-in-new-cases\">biggest spike of new coronavirus infections<\/a> in nearly two months. <\/p>\n<p>Museums, parks, and art galleries will all be closed again from Friday for two weeks, health minister Park Neung-hoo said. Companies are being urged to reintroduce flexible working hours among other measures.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/may\/28\/south-korea-faces-return-to-coronavirus-restrictions-after-spike-in-new-cases\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Museums, parks, and art galleries will all be closed again from Friday for two weeks, with authorities struggling to identify transmission routesCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageSouth Korea has reimplemented strict lockdown m&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":972,"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":[1069,914,299,222,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","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\/18768","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\/972"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18768"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18773,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18768\/revisions\/18773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}