{"id":68263,"date":"2024-12-12T08:45:16","date_gmt":"2024-12-11T23:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/dec\/12\/south-korea-martial-law-protests-k-pop-and-glow-sticks"},"modified":"2024-12-12T08:45:16","modified_gmt":"2024-12-11T23:45:16","slug":"south-korea-deploys-k-pop-light-sticks-and-dance-in-protests-against-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=68263","title":{"rendered":"South Korea deploys K-pop light sticks and dance in protests against president"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Christmas carols, K-pop merchandise and food trucks create positive atmosphere as protesters seek to oust President Yoon over his martial law attempt<\/p>\n<p>With blasting K-pop, glow sticks, food trucks and obligatory selfies, the protests that have swelled across South Korea since the president\u2019s shock declaration of martial law last week have taken on a surprisingly festive mood.<\/p>\n<p>Outside the national assembly in Seoul on Tuesday night, food trucks lined the streets selling traditional Korean snacks like <em>tteokbokki<\/em> (spicy rice cakes), <em>sundae<\/em> (blood sausage), and even <em>beondegi<\/em>, the favourite winter treat of boiled silkworm pupae.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/dec\/12\/south-korea-martial-law-protests-k-pop-and-glow-sticks\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christmas carols, K-pop merchandise and food trucks create positive atmosphere as protesters seek to oust President Yoon over his martial law attemptWith blasting K-pop, glow sticks, food trucks and obligatory selfies, the protests that have swelled ac&#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":[41,80,222,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-protest","category-south-korea","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68263","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=68263"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68264,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68263\/revisions\/68264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}