{"id":42255,"date":"2022-03-08T18:51:33","date_gmt":"2022-03-08T09:51:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/mar\/08\/south-korea-presidential-election"},"modified":"2022-03-08T18:51:33","modified_gmt":"2022-03-08T09:51:33","slug":"shamans-hitler-and-mutual-hatred-south-koreans-go-to-polls-in-rancorous-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=42255","title":{"rendered":"Shamans, Hitler and mutual hatred: South Koreans go to polls in rancorous election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Presidential hopefuls trade insults and fend off allegations of impropriety in race some liken to Squid Game series<\/p>\n<p>Hitler insults, shamanistic intrigue and some colourful language for good measure. It was always going to be difficult for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/south-korea\">South Korea<\/a> to match the vitriol surrounding Park Geun-hye\u2019s dramatic <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2017\/mar\/10\/south-korea-president-park-geun-hye-constitutional-court-impeachment\">removal from office<\/a> five years ago over corruption charges for which she would spend more than three years in prison.<\/p>\n<p>But the campaign leading up to Wednesday\u2019s election for the country\u2019s next president has given even Park\u2019s chaotic exit a run for its money.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/mar\/08\/south-korea-presidential-election\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Presidential hopefuls trade insults and fend off allegations of impropriety in race some liken to Squid Game seriesHitler insults, shamanistic intrigue and some colourful language for good measure. It was always going to be difficult for South Korea to&#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":[41,2459,222,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-park-geun-hye","category-south-korea","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42255","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=42255"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42256,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42255\/revisions\/42256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}