{"id":70469,"date":"2025-03-27T14:25:51","date_gmt":"2025-03-27T05:25:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/mar\/27\/south-korea-fires-death-toll-rises-worst-in-history"},"modified":"2025-03-27T22:00:48","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T13:00:48","slug":"south-korea-wildfires-become-biggest-on-record-as-disaster-chief-points-to-harsh-reality-of-climate-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=70469","title":{"rendered":"South Korea wildfires become biggest on record as disaster chief points to \u2018harsh reality\u2019 of climate crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Officials point to ultra-dry conditions as death toll reaches 27 and fires threaten Unesco heritage sites<\/p>\n<p>Authorities in South Korea are battling wildfires that have doubled in size in a day in the country\u2019s worst ever natural fire disaster.<\/p>\n<p>At least 27 people have died and hundreds of buildings destroyed in the south-eastern province of North Gyeongsang, with the country\u2019s disaster chief saying the fires had exposed the \u201charsh reality\u201d of global heating.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/mar\/27\/south-korea-fires-death-toll-rises-worst-in-history\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Officials point to ultra-dry conditions as death toll reaches 27 and fires threaten Unesco heritage sitesAuthorities in South Korea are battling wildfires that have doubled in size in a day in the country\u2019s worst ever natural fire disaster.At least 27 &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":165,"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":[41,222,723],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-south-korea","category-wildfires"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70469","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\/165"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70469"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70475,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70469\/revisions\/70475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}