{"id":41391,"date":"2022-02-05T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-05T03:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/feb\/05\/happy-alone-the-young-south-koreans-embracing-single-life"},"modified":"2022-02-05T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-02-05T03:00:00","slug":"happy-alone-the-young-south-koreans-embracing-single-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=41391","title":{"rendered":"Happy alone: the young South Koreans embracing single life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From honjok \u2013 taking part in activities alone \u2013 to bihon \u2013 pledging never to marry \u2013 a pushback against the traditional family unit is reshaping society<\/p>\n<p>Min Kyeong-seok is not shy about eating in restaurants alone, or staying in luxury hotels by himself, and shares his experiences online in his blog \u201cOne happy person\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want to show people that I am living a happy life despite being single,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/onehappyperson.tistory.com\/\">says Min, 37.<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/feb\/05\/happy-alone-the-young-south-koreans-embracing-single-life\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From honjok \u2013 taking part in activities alone \u2013 to bihon \u2013 pledging never to marry \u2013 a pushback against the traditional family unit is reshaping societyMin Kyeong-seok is not shy about eating in restaurants alone, or staying in luxury hotels by himself&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2881,"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":[41,76,222],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-marriage","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\/41391","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\/2881"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41391"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41392,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41391\/revisions\/41392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}