{"id":61434,"date":"2024-01-26T09:27:25","date_gmt":"2024-01-26T00:27:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/jan\/26\/the-first-lady-and-the-dior-bag-the-scandal-shaking-up-south-korean-politics"},"modified":"2024-01-26T09:27:25","modified_gmt":"2024-01-26T00:27:25","slug":"the-first-lady-and-the-dior-bag-the-scandal-shaking-up-south-korean-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=61434","title":{"rendered":"The first lady and the Dior bag: the scandal shaking up South Korean politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With a general election just months away, the party of president Yoon Suk Yeol is in crisis after his wife was accused of<em> <\/em>improperly accepting a designer handbag<\/p>\n<p>It reads like a complex K-drama plot. South Korea\u2019s first lady is secretly filmed as she\u2019s presented with a lavish gift from a pastor who advocates for unification with North Korea. But this is no scripted narrative, rather a real political crisis that has plunged South Korea\u2019s conservative government into disarray.<\/p>\n<p>With elections for the country\u2019s national assembly less than three months away, South Korean media is awash with accusations and recriminations \u2013 all of which stem from the alleged gift of a Dior handbag more than a year ago.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/jan\/26\/the-first-lady-and-the-dior-bag-the-scandal-shaking-up-south-korean-politics\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With a general election just months away, the party of president Yoon Suk Yeol is in crisis after his wife was accused of improperly accepting a designer handbagIt reads like a complex K-drama plot. South Korea\u2019s first lady is secretly filmed as she\u2019s &#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":[222],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","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\/61434","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=61434"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61435,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61434\/revisions\/61435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}