{"id":70578,"date":"2025-03-30T14:07:57","date_gmt":"2025-03-30T05:07:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/mar\/30\/man-tending-grandparents-graves-suspected-of-igniting-south-koreas-worst-wildfires"},"modified":"2025-03-30T14:07:57","modified_gmt":"2025-03-30T05:07:57","slug":"man-tending-grandparents-graves-suspected-of-igniting-south-koreas-worst-wildfires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=70578","title":{"rendered":"Man tending grandparents\u2019 graves suspected of igniting South Korea\u2019s worst wildfires"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police launch probe into a man suspected of accidentally starting the country\u2019s worst wildfires in history while clearing his relatives\u2019 gravesites<\/p>\n<p>South Korean police have launched a probe into a man suspected of accidentally igniting the country\u2019s worst wildfires in history while cleaning his grandparents\u2019 gravesites, an investigator has said.<\/p>\n<p>More than a dozen fires have been fanned by high winds and dry conditions, killing 30 people and burning more than 48,000 hectares (118,610 acres) of forest, with officials calling it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/mar\/27\/south-korea-fires-death-toll-rises-worst-in-history\">the worst of its kind recorded in South Korea<\/a>, with the fires exposing the harsh reality of global heating.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/mar\/30\/man-tending-grandparents-graves-suspected-of-igniting-south-koreas-worst-wildfires\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police launch probe into a man suspected of accidentally starting the country\u2019s worst wildfires in history while clearing his relatives\u2019 gravesitesSouth Korean police have launched a probe into a man suspected of accidentally igniting the country\u2019s wor&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":206,"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":[222,723],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","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\/70578","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\/206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70578"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70579,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70578\/revisions\/70579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}