{"id":50266,"date":"2022-11-16T15:49:48","date_gmt":"2022-11-16T06:49:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/16\/south-korea-cuts-funding-to-broadcaster-as-concern-over-press-freedom-grows"},"modified":"2022-11-16T15:49:48","modified_gmt":"2022-11-16T06:49:48","slug":"south-korea-cuts-funding-to-broadcaster-as-concern-over-press-freedom-grows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=50266","title":{"rendered":"South Korea cuts funding to broadcaster as concern over press freedom grows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TBS set to have most of its funding cut starting in 2024 after a decision by Seoul city government, led by president Yoon\u2019s party<\/p>\n<p>A popular South Korean broadcaster accused of political bias is set to lose its city funding amid concern press freedoms are being restricted under the Yoon Suk-yeol government.<\/p>\n<p>TBS, which operates two radio stations and a television channel, receives 70% of its funding from the Seoul city government.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/16\/south-korea-cuts-funding-to-broadcaster-as-concern-over-press-freedom-grows\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TBS set to have most of its funding cut starting in 2024 after a decision by Seoul city government, led by president Yoon\u2019s partyA popular South Korean broadcaster accused of political bias is set to lose its city funding amid concern press freedoms ar&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2929,"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":[41,54,222],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-press-freedom","category-south-korea"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50266","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\/2929"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50266"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50267,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50266\/revisions\/50267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}