{"id":55321,"date":"2023-05-20T20:05:44","date_gmt":"2023-05-20T11:05:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2023\/may\/20\/justin-trudeaus-greetings-from-manner-legs-to-the-three-way-handshake-video"},"modified":"2023-05-20T20:05:44","modified_gmt":"2023-05-20T11:05:44","slug":"justin-trudeaus-greetings-from-manner-legs-to-the-three-way-handshake-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=55321","title":{"rendered":"Justin Trudeau\u2019s greetings: from &#8216;manner legs&#8217; to the three-way handshake \u2013 video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Justin Trudeau spread his legs to put himself at a similar height to South Korea <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=lo6V6cEfMOI\">national assembly speaker, Kim Jin-pyo<\/a>, during a visit to the country.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>The move is known in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/south-korea\">South Korea<\/a> as &#8216;manner legs&#8217;, meant to level the height between two people, and Trudeau performed it after Kim raised on his tiptoes, poking fun at the 20cm (8in) height gap between the two men.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>It was not the first time the Canadian prime minister\u2019s greetings with political leaders have received attention, here are some of his most well-known moments<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/may\/19\/justin-trudeau-korea-wide-stance-photo-manner-legs\"><strong>Trudeau\u2019s wide-stance pose with Korean politician splits critics<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2023\/may\/20\/justin-trudeaus-greetings-from-manner-legs-to-the-three-way-handshake-video\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Justin Trudeau spread his legs to put himself at a similar height to South Korea national assembly speaker, Kim Jin-pyo, during a visit to the country.The move is known in South Korea as &#8216;manner legs&#8217;, meant to level the height between two people, and &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"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":[244,712,222,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-canada","category-justin-trudeau","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\/55321","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\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55321"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55322,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55321\/revisions\/55322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}