{"id":19935,"date":"2020-07-01T13:31:04","date_gmt":"2020-07-01T04:31:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jul\/01\/south-korea-incidents-of-covid-19-mask-rage-flareas-summer-heats-up"},"modified":"2020-07-01T13:31:04","modified_gmt":"2020-07-01T04:31:04","slug":"south-korea-incidents-of-covid-19-mask-rage-flare-as-summer-heats-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=19935","title":{"rendered":"South Korea: incidents of Covid-19 &#8216;mask rage&#8217; flare as summer heats up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hot weather is making mask wearing increasingly uncomfortable, prompting some people to refuse face coverings in defiance of government advice<\/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>The onset of summer has sparked a rise in incidents of \u201cmask rage\u201d in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/south-korea\">South Korea<\/a>, as more hot and bothered commuters either refuse to wear face coverings or leave parts of their faces exposed.<\/p>\n<p>In South Korea, Japan and other countries in east Asia, widespread mask wearing has been cited as one possible explanation for the region\u2019s relative success in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/may\/22\/from-near-disaster-to-success-story-how-japan-has-tackled-coronavirus\">bringing the Covid-19 pandemic under control<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jul\/01\/south-korea-incidents-of-covid-19-mask-rage-flareas-summer-heats-up\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hot weather is making mask wearing increasingly uncomfortable, prompting some people to refuse face coverings in defiance of government adviceCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageThe onset of summer has sparked a rise in incident&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":151,"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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-infectious-diseases","category-science","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\/19935","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\/151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19935"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19935\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19936,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19935\/revisions\/19936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}