{"id":39655,"date":"2021-12-10T12:23:22","date_gmt":"2021-12-10T03:23:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/dec\/10\/south-korea-cuts-human-interaction-in-push-to-build-untact-society"},"modified":"2021-12-10T12:23:22","modified_gmt":"2021-12-10T03:23:22","slug":"south-korea-cuts-human-interaction-in-push-to-build-untact-society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=39655","title":{"rendered":"South Korea cuts human interaction in push to build \u2018untact\u2019 society"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The government invests heavily to remove human contact from many aspects of life but fears of harmful social consequences persist<\/p>\n<p>For Seoul-based graduate Lee Su-bin, the transition to a new lifestyle during the pandemic was no big deal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt the university library, I would reserve my books online, which would then be sanitised in a book steriliser before being delivered to a locker for pick up,\u201d the 25-year-old says.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/dec\/10\/south-korea-cuts-human-interaction-in-push-to-build-untact-society\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The government invests heavily to remove human contact from many aspects of life but fears of harmful social consequences persistFor Seoul-based graduate Lee Su-bin, the transition to a new lifestyle during the pandemic was no big deal.\u201cAt the universi&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2488,"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":[41,1066,587,222],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus","category-economic-policy","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\/39655","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\/2488"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39655"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39656,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39655\/revisions\/39656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}