{"id":50016,"date":"2022-11-05T20:43:48","date_gmt":"2022-11-05T11:43:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/05\/itaewon-crowd-crush-thousands-join-vigil-as-anger-grows-in-south-korea"},"modified":"2022-11-05T20:43:48","modified_gmt":"2022-11-05T11:43:48","slug":"itaewon-crowd-crush-thousands-join-vigil-as-anger-grows-in-south-korea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=50016","title":{"rendered":"Itaewon crowd crush: thousands join vigil as anger grows in South Korea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Law enforcement concedes insufficient planning as president belatedly expresses regret for disaster<\/p>\n<p>Thousands of people gathered near Seoul\u2019s city hall on Saturday to commemorate the 156 people killed in a Halloween crowd crush in Itaewon last weekend. <\/p>\n<p>Christian and Buddhist leaders spoke on stage, demanding President Yoon Suk-yeol step down and asking how the country could mourn without knowing the truth behind the deaths.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/05\/itaewon-crowd-crush-thousands-join-vigil-as-anger-grows-in-south-korea\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Law enforcement concedes insufficient planning as president belatedly expresses regret for disasterThousands of people gathered near Seoul\u2019s city hall on Saturday to commemorate the 156 people killed in a Halloween crowd crush in Itaewon last weekend. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3418,"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":[41,2798,222,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-seoul-crowd-crush","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\/50016","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\/3418"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50016"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50017,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50016\/revisions\/50017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}