{"id":41319,"date":"2022-02-03T14:51:25","date_gmt":"2022-02-03T05:51:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/feb\/03\/south-koreas-nose-only-kosk-mask-for-covid-safe-eating-raises-eyebrows"},"modified":"2022-02-03T14:51:25","modified_gmt":"2022-02-03T05:51:25","slug":"south-koreas-nose-only-kosk-mask-for-covid-safe-eating-raises-eyebrows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=41319","title":{"rendered":"South Korea\u2019s nose-only \u2018kosk\u2019 mask for Covid-safe eating raises eyebrows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The unusual masks designed to protect wearers while they eat have attracted criticism online <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>An anti-virus mask that folds up to only cover the nose and can continue to be worn while eating and drinking are on sale in South Korea.<\/p>\n<p>The \u2018kosk\u2019, a combination of \u2018ko\u2019, the Korean word for nose, and mask, has been released by a company called Atman and sells for 9,800 won ($8.13; \u00a35.99) for a box of 10 on online retailer Coupang.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/feb\/03\/south-koreas-nose-only-kosk-mask-for-covid-safe-eating-raises-eyebrows\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The unusual masks designed to protect wearers while they eat have attracted criticism online See all our coronavirus coverageAn anti-virus mask that folds up to only cover the nose and can continue to be worn while eating and drinking are on sale in So&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":255,"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":[1066,222],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coronavirus","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\/41319","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\/255"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41319"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41331,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41319\/revisions\/41331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}