{"id":59700,"date":"2023-11-08T15:00:31","date_gmt":"2023-11-08T06:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/nov\/08\/south-korea-bedbug-outbreak-crisis-campaign-eradication-inspections"},"modified":"2023-11-08T15:00:31","modified_gmt":"2023-11-08T06:00:31","slug":"south-korea-launches-campaign-to-squash-bedbugs-after-outbreak-takes-hold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=59700","title":{"rendered":"South Korea launches campaign to squash bedbugs after outbreak takes hold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bedbugs were almost eradicated via nationwide campaign in 1960s but thanks to lifting of travel restrictions after Covid-19 pandemic they\u2019re back<\/p>\n<p>South Korea\u2019s government has declared war on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/sep\/29\/bedbug-crisis-political-row-paris-insect-scourge-continues\">bedbugs<\/a>, amid reports that an infestation is causing panic in a country that had practically rid itself of the nocturnal bloodsuckers.<\/p>\n<p>Starting next week, authorities will carry out inspections of \u201cvulnerable\u201d locations \u2013 including public bathhouses and lodging facilities \u2013 and immediately disinfect places where the bugs are found.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/nov\/08\/south-korea-bedbug-outbreak-crisis-campaign-eradication-inspections\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bedbugs were almost eradicated via nationwide campaign in 1960s but thanks to lifting of travel restrictions after Covid-19 pandemic they\u2019re backSouth Korea\u2019s government has declared war on bedbugs, amid reports that an infestation is causing panic in &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":818,"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":[265,41,777,222,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animals","category-asia-pacific","category-insects","category-south-korea","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59700","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\/818"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59700"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59701,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59700\/revisions\/59701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}