{"id":56820,"date":"2023-07-20T23:13:21","date_gmt":"2023-07-20T14:13:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jul\/20\/south-korea-accused-of-paying-lip-service-to-climate-action-in-wake-of-flood-deaths"},"modified":"2023-07-20T23:13:21","modified_gmt":"2023-07-20T14:13:21","slug":"south-korea-accused-of-paying-lip-service-to-climate-action-after-deadly-floods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=56820","title":{"rendered":"South Korea accused of paying lip service to climate action after deadly floods"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After death of 46 people, activists say that despite the growing threat to South Koreans from climate change, little is being done to address its causes<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mois.go.kr\/frt\/bbs\/type001\/commonSelectBoardArticle.do?bbsId=BBSMSTR_000000000336&amp;nttId=101919\">Forty-six dead and four missing<\/a>. Thirty-five injured. Sixteen thousand evacuated and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.yna.co.kr\/view\/AEN20230719007451315\">5,500<\/a> displaced. More than 1,000 public facilities and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.yna.co.kr\/view\/AEN20230719006151315\">dozens of cultural heritage sites<\/a> damaged. Hundreds of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.koreaherald.com\/view.php?ud=20230719000565\">houses destroyed<\/a>, 30,000 hectares of farmland damaged and 700,000 livestock killed.<\/p>\n<p>As South Korea counts the cost of the devastating flash floods and landslides caused by the torrential rains that lashed the country last weekend, questions about responsibility \u2013 and response \u2013 are being raised.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jul\/20\/south-korea-accused-of-paying-lip-service-to-climate-action-in-wake-of-flood-deaths\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After death of 46 people, activists say that despite the growing threat to South Koreans from climate change, little is being done to address its causesForty-six dead and four missing. Thirty-five injured. Sixteen thousand evacuated and 5,500 displaced&#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":[41,2331,65,222,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-climate-crisis","category-environment","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\/56820","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=56820"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56821,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56820\/revisions\/56821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}