{"id":20457,"date":"2020-07-13T12:18:54","date_gmt":"2020-07-13T03:18:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jul\/13\/seoul-mayor-funeral-anger-at-use-of-public-funds-for-five-day-service"},"modified":"2020-07-13T12:18:54","modified_gmt":"2020-07-13T03:18:54","slug":"seoul-mayor-funeral-anger-at-use-of-public-funds-for-five-day-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=20457","title":{"rendered":"Seoul mayor funeral: anger at use of public funds for five-day service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More than 500,000 people sign petition calling for quiet family funeral for Park Won-soon amid sexual harassment allegations<\/p>\n<p>A row has broken out over whether the mayor of Seoul, who was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jul\/09\/park-won-soon-mayor-of-seoul-goes-missing-after-assault-allegation\">found dead last week<\/a> in an apparent suicide, should be given a publicly funded funeral amid allegations he sexually harassed a member of his staff.<\/p>\n<p>The South Korean capital\u2019s administrative court dismissed an eleventh-hour injunction to block the use of taxpayer funds for the funeral on Monday morning of Park Won-soon, whose body was found in mountain woods in Seoul on Friday.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jul\/13\/seoul-mayor-funeral-anger-at-use-of-public-funds-for-five-day-service\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 500,000 people sign petition calling for quiet family funeral for Park Won-soon amid sexual harassment allegationsA row has broken out over whether the mayor of Seoul, who was found dead last week in an apparent suicide, should be given a pub&#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":[41,222,281],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-south-korea","category-women"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20457","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=20457"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20459,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20457\/revisions\/20459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}