{"id":44349,"date":"2022-05-10T16:29:24","date_gmt":"2022-05-10T07:29:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/may\/10\/claims-of-shamans-and-curses-as-south-koreas-president-shuns-official-residence"},"modified":"2022-05-10T16:29:24","modified_gmt":"2022-05-10T07:29:24","slug":"claims-of-shamans-and-curses-as-south-koreas-president-shuns-official-residence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=44349","title":{"rendered":"Claims of shamans and curses as South Korea\u2019s president shuns official residence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yoon Suk-yeol said the Blue House was \u2018a symbol of imperial power\u2019 but critics have highlighted costs and safety concerns<\/p>\n<p>For decades, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/south-korea\">South Korea<\/a>\u2019s presidents have begun their terms in office by acquainting themselves with the vast premises of the Blue House.<\/p>\n<p>But on Tuesday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/may\/10\/south-koreas-new-president-offers-north-economic-plan-in-return-for-denuclearisation\">Yoon Suk-yeol<\/a> became the first leader in the country\u2019s modern history to shun the presidential residence, heading instead to a new office inside a former defence ministry building in central Seoul.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/may\/10\/claims-of-shamans-and-curses-as-south-koreas-president-shuns-official-residence\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yoon Suk-yeol said the Blue House was \u2018a symbol of imperial power\u2019 but critics have highlighted costs and safety concernsFor decades, South Korea\u2019s presidents have begun their terms in office by acquainting themselves with the vast premises of the Blue&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3060,"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":[41,222,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-south-korea","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44349","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\/3060"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44349"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44350,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44349\/revisions\/44350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}