{"id":67971,"date":"2024-11-28T13:50:19","date_gmt":"2024-11-28T04:50:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/nov\/28\/south-korea-weather-seoul-snow-death-toll-flights-cancelled"},"modified":"2024-11-28T13:50:19","modified_gmt":"2024-11-28T04:50:19","slug":"four-killed-and-flights-cancelled-as-heavy-snowfall-blankets-seoul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=67971","title":{"rendered":"Four killed and flights cancelled as heavy snowfall blankets Seoul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>South Korea\u2019s capital has been hit by some of the heaviest snowfall in a century, with dangerous conditions wreaking havoc on transport<\/p>\n<p>South Korea grappled with heavy snowfall for a second day on Thursday, with dozens of flights cancelled, ferry operations suspended and at least four people reported dead in a bitter winter, though conditions showed signs of easing.<\/p>\n<p>Thursday\u2019s snowfall was the third-heaviest in capital Seoul since records began in 1907, the Yonhap news agency said, citing city data. The previous day <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/nov\/27\/seoul-slows-down-under-blanket-of-heaviest-november-snow-in-100-years\">broke all snowfall records for November.<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/nov\/28\/south-korea-weather-seoul-snow-death-toll-flights-cancelled\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Korea\u2019s capital has been hit by some of the heaviest snowfall in a century, with dangerous conditions wreaking havoc on transportSouth Korea grappled with heavy snowfall for a second day on Thursday, with dozens of flights cancelled, ferry operat&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"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":[41,1791,222],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-snow","category-south-korea"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67971","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\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67971"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67972,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67971\/revisions\/67972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}