{"id":42233,"date":"2022-03-07T11:58:47","date_gmt":"2022-03-07T02:58:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/mar\/07\/south-koreas-poisonous-gender-politics-a-test-for-next-president"},"modified":"2022-03-07T11:58:47","modified_gmt":"2022-03-07T02:58:47","slug":"south-koreas-poisonous-gender-politics-a-test-for-next-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=42233","title":{"rendered":"South Korea\u2019s poisonous gender politics a test for next president"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As election campaign enters final stages, the two leading candidates have been accused of pandering to sexism to win the votes of aggrieved young men <\/p>\n<p>The identity of South Korea\u2019s next leader will be determined this week by the economy, housing prices and incomes, but the road to the presidential Blue House will also be dotted with the wreckage of the country\u2019s poisonous gender politics.<\/p>\n<p>The successor to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2017\/may\/09\/moon-jae-in-the-south-korean-pragmatist-who-would-be-presidentc\">Moon Jae-in<\/a>, who is restricted by law to a single five-year term, will not be able to ignore the fallout from a campaign defined by the culture war being waged in the world\u2019s 10th-biggest economy.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/mar\/07\/south-koreas-poisonous-gender-politics-a-test-for-next-president\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As election campaign enters final stages, the two leading candidates have been accused of pandering to sexism to win the votes of aggrieved young men The identity of South Korea\u2019s next leader will be determined this week by the economy, housing prices &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":151,"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":[41,237,646,222],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-feminism","category-gender","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\/42233","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\/151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42233"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42234,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42233\/revisions\/42234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}