{"id":74743,"date":"2025-10-14T10:48:44","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T01:48:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/oct\/14\/south-korea-student-alleged-torture-death-cambodia-scammers-sparks-turmoil"},"modified":"2025-10-14T10:48:44","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T01:48:44","slug":"students-alleged-torture-death-by-cambodia-scammers-sparks-turmoil-in-south-korea-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=74743","title":{"rendered":"Student\u2019s alleged torture death by Cambodia scammers sparks turmoil in South Korea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>South Korean president urges \u2018all-out\u2019 efforts to protect citizens after number of kidnappings in Cambodia soars in recent months<\/p>\n<p>South Korean president Lee Jae Myung has <a href=\"https:\/\/en.yna.co.kr\/view\/AEN20251011004900320\">called<\/a> for \u201call-out\u201d diplomatic efforts to protect citizens in Cambodia after a university student was lured there by a scam ring and allegedly tortured to death.<\/p>\n<p>At a cabinet meeting on Tuesday, Lee said \u201cprotecting the lives and safety of citizens is the government\u2019s greatest responsibility\u201d and called for all scam victims to be \u201cswiftly repatriated\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/oct\/14\/south-korea-student-alleged-torture-death-cambodia-scammers-sparks-turmoil\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Korean president urges \u2018all-out\u2019 efforts to protect citizens after number of kidnappings in Cambodia soars in recent monthsSouth Korean president Lee Jae Myung has called for \u201call-out\u201d diplomatic efforts to protect citizens in Cambodia after a un&#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":[41,361,222],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-cambodia","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\/74743","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=74743"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74746,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74743\/revisions\/74746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}