{"id":63178,"date":"2024-04-09T13:55:28","date_gmt":"2024-04-09T04:55:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/apr\/09\/south-korea-national-assembly-elections-2024-green-onions-supermarket-crisis-cost-of-living"},"modified":"2024-04-09T13:55:28","modified_gmt":"2024-04-09T04:55:28","slug":"from-the-frying-pan-to-the-fire-green-onions-ignite-voter-anger-in-south-koreas-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=63178","title":{"rendered":"From the frying pan to the fire: green onions ignite voter anger in South Korea\u2019s elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A presidential visit to a supermarket amid a cost-of-living crisis was supposed to garner public support, but ended up feeding suspicions the leader is out of touch<\/p>\n<p>Yoon Suk Yeol is hardly the first elected politician to appear <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/live\/2023\/aug\/16\/rishi-sunak-nhs-inflation-ltn-home-office-uk-politics-live-latest\">out of touch<\/a> with ordinary voters during a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/cost-of-living-crisis\">cost-of-living<\/a> crisis. But as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/south-korea\">South Korea<\/a> prepares for key national assembly elections on Wednesday, its conservative president has been tripped up by a humble vegetable.<\/p>\n<p>In recent weeks, green onions have gone from a simple staple of Korean cooking to a powerful symbol of voter anger over <a href=\"https:\/\/en.yna.co.kr\/view\/AEN20240306001400320\">rising prices<\/a> in Asia\u2019s fourth-biggest economy.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/apr\/09\/south-korea-national-assembly-elections-2024-green-onions-supermarket-crisis-cost-of-living\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A presidential visit to a supermarket amid a cost-of-living crisis was supposed to garner public support, but ended up feeding suspicions the leader is out of touchYoon Suk Yeol is hardly the first elected politician to appear out of touch with ordinar&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4110,"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-63178","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\/63178","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\/4110"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63178"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63179,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63178\/revisions\/63179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}