{"id":60872,"date":"2024-01-02T13:40:31","date_gmt":"2024-01-02T04:40:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2024\/jan\/02\/lee-jae-myung-stabbing-footage-shows-attack-on-south-korea-opposition-leader-video"},"modified":"2024-01-02T13:40:31","modified_gmt":"2024-01-02T04:40:31","slug":"lee-jae-myung-stabbing-footage-shows-attack-on-south-korea-opposition-leader-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=60872","title":{"rendered":"Lee Jae-myung stabbing: footage shows attack on South Korea opposition leader \u2013 video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The South Korean politician is stabbed in the neck while talking to reporters in the port city of Busan. Footage shows Lee Jae-myung walking in a crowd of journalists when a man in front of him lunges and strikes him with what &#8216;looked like a knife&#8217;, according to a witness speaking to local broadcaster YTN. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Police in Busan say the opposition leader suffered a &#8216;one-centimetre laceration on his neck&#8217; and that he &#8216;remains conscious and bleeding is minor&#8217;, according to South Korean news outlet Chosun Ilbo. The assailant has been arrested, Yonhap news agency&nbsp;says<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/jan\/02\/lee-jae-myung-stabbed-south-korea-opposition-leader-busan-local-media-reports\">South Korea opposition leader Lee Jae-myung stabbed<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2024\/jan\/02\/lee-jae-myung-stabbing-footage-shows-attack-on-south-korea-opposition-leader-video\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The South Korean politician is stabbed in the neck while talking to reporters in the port city of Busan. Footage shows Lee Jae-myung walking in a crowd of journalists when a man in front of him lunges and strikes him with what &#8216;looked like a knife&#8217;, ac&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":327,"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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","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\/60872","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\/327"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60872"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60885,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60872\/revisions\/60885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}