{"id":34007,"date":"2021-07-12T20:17:04","date_gmt":"2021-07-12T11:17:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jul\/12\/no-gangnam-style-south-korea-covid-rules-enforce-slower-music-gyms"},"modified":"2021-07-12T20:17:04","modified_gmt":"2021-07-12T11:17:04","slug":"no-permission-to-dance-south-korea-covid-rules-enforce-slower-music-in-gyms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=34007","title":{"rendered":"No Permission to Dance: South Korea Covid rules enforce slower music in gyms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Authorities add requirement that workout tunes must not exceed 120 beats per minute in group exercises<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/viewer.gutools.co.uk\/world\/series\/coronavirus-live\/latest\">Coronavirus \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/viewer.gutools.co.uk\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We have been asked to sacrifice so much to tackle the coronavirus and most have been willing to do so, but there must be a limit and in South Korea they appear to have reached it.<\/p>\n<p>People love lively music. They love working out. But now tracks above a certain speed \u2013 including but not only the country\u2019s massively popular K-pop \u2013 have been banned from gyms, with vibrant music being cited as potentially dangerous for exercise during the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jul\/12\/no-gangnam-style-south-korea-covid-rules-enforce-slower-music-gyms\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Authorities add requirement that workout tunes must not exceed 120 beats per minute in group exercisesCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageWe have been asked to sacrifice so much to tackle the coronavirus and most have been willi&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2312,"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":[41,1066,222,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus","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\/34007","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\/2312"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34007"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34007\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34008,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34007\/revisions\/34008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}