{"id":48760,"date":"2022-09-23T14:27:24","date_gmt":"2022-09-23T05:27:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/sep\/23\/calls-for-stalking-law-overhaul-in-south-korea-as-womans-shocks-nation"},"modified":"2022-09-23T14:27:24","modified_gmt":"2022-09-23T05:27:24","slug":"calls-for-stalking-law-overhaul-in-south-korea-as-womans-murder-shocks-nation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=48760","title":{"rendered":"Calls for stalking law overhaul in South Korea as woman\u2019s murder shocks nation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stabbing triggers accusations that authorities are failing to take violence against women seriously<\/p>\n<p>The murder of a South Korean woman who had been stalked by her alleged killer for years has sparked outrage and demands for changes in the law to better protect women.<\/p>\n<p>The woman\u2019s murder in a bathroom at the subway station where she worked earlier this month has shocked South Korea, coming a day before her alleged attacker, named by police as 31-year-old Jeon Joo-hwan, had been due to be sentenced for stalking her.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/sep\/23\/calls-for-stalking-law-overhaul-in-south-korea-as-womans-shocks-nation\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stabbing triggers accusations that authorities are failing to take violence against women seriouslyThe murder of a South Korean woman who had been stalked by her alleged killer for years has sparked outrage and demands for changes in the law to better &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":271,"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-48760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","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\/48760","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\/271"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48760"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48761,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48760\/revisions\/48761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}