{"id":4802,"date":"2019-07-27T11:54:46","date_gmt":"2019-07-27T02:54:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/jul\/27\/south-korea-balcony-collapse-deaths-world-championship-swimmers-injured-"},"modified":"2019-07-27T11:54:46","modified_gmt":"2019-07-27T02:54:46","slug":"south-korea-world-championship-athletes-injured-in-fatal-balcony-collapse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=4802","title":{"rendered":"South Korea: world championship athletes injured in fatal balcony collapse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nightclub balcony falls, killing two South Koreans and injuring aquatic athletes from the US, New Zealand, Netherlands, Italy and Brazil<\/p>\n<p>Two South Koreans have died and several others, including athletes attending the world aquatic championships, have been injured after a structure collapsed in a nightclub in the city of Gwangju early on Saturday, a fire department official has said.<\/p>\n<p>The deaths happened when a two-level structure in the club, which is next to the athletes\u2019 village, collapsed at about 2am local time, hitting and pinning revellers, the official said.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/jul\/27\/south-korea-balcony-collapse-deaths-world-championship-swimmers-injured-\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nightclub balcony falls, killing two South Koreans and injuring aquatic athletes from the US, New Zealand, Netherlands, Italy and BrazilTwo South Koreans have died and several others, including athletes attending the world aquatic championships, have b&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"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":[41,452,221,451,219,56,222,203,450,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-brazil","category-europe","category-italy","category-netherlands","category-new-zealand","category-south-korea","category-sport","category-swimming","category-us-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\/4802","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\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4802"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4802\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4807,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4802\/revisions\/4807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}