{"id":55917,"date":"2023-06-12T13:37:49","date_gmt":"2023-06-12T04:37:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jun\/12\/police-arrest-british-man-free-climbing-south-korean-skyscraper"},"modified":"2023-06-12T21:26:34","modified_gmt":"2023-06-12T12:26:34","slug":"police-arrest-british-man-free-climbing-south-korean-skyscraper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=55917","title":{"rendered":"Police arrest British man free-climbing South Korean skyscraper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Man identified locally as George King-Thompson, who was previously jailed after free-climbing London\u2019s Shard<\/p>\n<p>A British man, previously jailed after free-climbing the Shard in London, has reportedly been arrested in South Korea after attempting to climb the country\u2019s tallest skyscraper without equipment, police said.<\/p>\n<p>The man was scaling the 123-storey Lotte World Tower in southern Seoul early on Monday when staff spotted him, forcing him to stop his ascent as he reached the 73rd floor.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jun\/12\/police-arrest-british-man-free-climbing-south-korean-skyscraper\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Man identified locally as George King-Thompson, who was previously jailed after free-climbing London\u2019s ShardA British man, previously jailed after free-climbing the Shard in London, has reportedly been arrested in South Korea after attempting to climb &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":288,"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-55917","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\/55917","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\/288"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55917"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55926,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55917\/revisions\/55926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}