{"id":60874,"date":"2024-01-02T11:06:33","date_gmt":"2024-01-02T02:06:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/jan\/02\/lee-jae-myung-stabbed-south-korea-opposition-leader-busan-local-media-reports"},"modified":"2024-01-02T11:06:33","modified_gmt":"2024-01-02T02:06:33","slug":"south-korea-opposition-leader-lee-jae-myung-stabbed-in-the-neck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=60874","title":{"rendered":"South Korea opposition leader Lee Jae-myung stabbed in the neck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>South Korean news agency Yonhap reported that Lee\u2019s assailant had been arrested at the scene in the port city of Busan<\/p>\n<p>South Korea\u2019s opposition party leader Lee Jae-myung has been hospitalised after being attacked during a visit to the southern port city of Busan, sustaining injuries that health officials said were not life threatening.<\/p>\n<p>Lee, 59, was stabbed on the left side of his neck with a weapon by an unidentified man pretending to be a supporter, South Korean news agency Yonhap said. The weapon was approximately 20 to 30cm long, according to eyewitnesses.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/jan\/02\/lee-jae-myung-stabbed-south-korea-opposition-leader-busan-local-media-reports\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Korean news agency Yonhap reported that Lee\u2019s assailant had been arrested at the scene in the port city of BusanSouth Korea\u2019s opposition party leader Lee Jae-myung has been hospitalised after being attacked during a visit to the southern port cit&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4079,"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-60874","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\/60874","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\/4079"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60874"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60900,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60874\/revisions\/60900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}