{"id":36935,"date":"2021-09-17T00:55:43","date_gmt":"2021-09-16T15:55:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/16\/send-tory-ministers-to-seoul-to-learn-about-mask-wearing"},"modified":"2021-09-17T00:55:43","modified_gmt":"2021-09-16T15:55:43","slug":"send-tory-ministers-to-seoul-to-learn-about-mask-wearing-letter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=36935","title":{"rendered":"Send Tory ministers to Seoul to learn about mask-wearing | Letter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A recent visitor to South Korea compares the country\u2019s approach to Covid management with that of the UK  <\/p>\n<p>We are just back from six weeks in Seoul, South Korea, and suffered a real culture shock on our return. In South Korea, there is not a soul without a mask. The man in the street and taxi drivers remind you if&nbsp;you have forgotten it.<\/p>\n<p>All offices, schools, shops, restaurants, museums, train stations and airports have entry requirements. There are units taking your temperature and sanitising your hands before you can enter.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/16\/send-tory-ministers-to-seoul-to-learn-about-mask-wearing\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent visitor to South Korea compares the country\u2019s approach to Covid management with that of the UK  We are just back from six weeks in Seoul, South Korea, and suffered a real culture shock on our return. In South Korea, there is not a soul without&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":269,"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":[41,904,1066,346,1059,914,222],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-conservatives","category-coronavirus","category-health","category-health-policy","category-infectious-diseases","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\/36935","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\/269"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36935"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36935\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36936,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36935\/revisions\/36936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}