{"id":21985,"date":"2020-08-23T20:43:07","date_gmt":"2020-08-23T11:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/23\/how-south-koreas-evangelical-churches-found-themselves-at-the-heart-of-the-covid-crisis"},"modified":"2020-08-23T20:43:07","modified_gmt":"2020-08-23T11:43:07","slug":"how-south-koreas-evangelical-churches-found-themselves-at-the-heart-of-the-covid-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=21985","title":{"rendered":"How South Korea&#8217;s evangelical churches found themselves at the heart of the Covid crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More than 700 cases have been linked to Sarang Jeil church, which says it\u2019s being made a scapegoat for the the pandemic<\/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>Four months ago, South Korea was basking in international praise for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/apr\/23\/test-trace-contain-how-south-korea-flattened-its-coronavirus-curve\">containing the coronavirus pandemic<\/a>. But now it stands on the brink of a second serious outbreak, and much of the blame is again being directed at the country\u2019s evangelical churches.<\/p>\n<p> authorities say a recent surge in cases traced to Sarang Jeil, an ultra-conservative church in Seoul, have contributed to an outbreak that is affecting major cities across the country. Some members of its congregation also attended a large anti-government rally in the capital last weekend that officials believe could have helped the virus spread.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/23\/how-south-koreas-evangelical-churches-found-themselves-at-the-heart-of-the-covid-crisis\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 700 cases have been linked to Sarang Jeil church, which says it\u2019s being made a scapegoat for the the pandemicCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageFour months ago, South Korea was basking in international praise for cont&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":966,"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":[41,1069,222,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus-outbreak","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\/21985","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\/966"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21985"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21986,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21985\/revisions\/21986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}