{"id":56716,"date":"2023-07-17T09:37:14","date_gmt":"2023-07-17T00:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jul\/17\/south-korea-floods-flooding-death-toll-cheongju-road-tunnel-search"},"modified":"2023-07-17T11:46:00","modified_gmt":"2023-07-17T02:46:00","slug":"south-korea-floods-13-bodies-pulled-from-road-tunnel-as-search-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=56716","title":{"rendered":"South Korea floods: president urges climate crisis action as death toll hits 40"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Yoon Suk Yeol calls for overhaul of national preparedness as extreme weather becomes \u2018commonplace\u2019<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/live\/2023\/jul\/17\/europe-heatwave-2023-us-asia-heat-extreme-severe-weather-fires-flash-floods-flooding-record-breaking-heat-wave-stress-temperature-red-alert-climate-crisis\">Extreme heatwave: live global updates<\/a> <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Rescuers in South Korea have recovered a total of 13 bodies from a flooded road tunnel in a central city, as the death toll from flash floods and landslides triggered by days of heavy rain rose to at least 40 on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The devastation prompted the country\u2019s president, Yoon Suk Yeol, to warn that the climate crisis had made extreme weather a fact of life.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jul\/17\/south-korea-floods-flooding-death-toll-cheongju-road-tunnel-search\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Yoon Suk Yeol calls for overhaul of national preparedness as extreme weather becomes \u2018commonplace\u2019Extreme heatwave: live global updates Rescuers in South Korea have recovered a total of 13 bodies from a flooded road tunnel in a central city, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3145,"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":[41,455,222],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-extreme-weather","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\/56716","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\/3145"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56716"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56728,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56716\/revisions\/56728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}