{"id":8119,"date":"2014-04-27T09:46:19","date_gmt":"2014-04-27T01:46:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=8119"},"modified":"2014-05-08T15:41:16","modified_gmt":"2014-05-08T07:41:16","slug":"south-korea-pm-offers-to-resign-over-ferry-tragedy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/04\/27\/south-korea-pm-offers-to-resign-over-ferry-tragedy\/","title":{"rendered":"South Korea PM resigns over ferry tragedy"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_7606\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7606\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Park-Geun-hye.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7606\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Park-Geun-hye.jpg\" alt=\"South Korean President Park Geun-hye. Photo from President Park's official Facebook page.\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Park-Geun-hye.jpg 640w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Park-Geun-hye-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7606\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">South Korean President Park Geun-hye. Photo from President Park&#8217;s official Facebook page.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>SEOUL, South Korea &#8211; South Korea&#8217;s prime minister has offered to resign over the sinking of a ferry that has left more than 300 missing or dead.<\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister Chung Hong-won&#8217;s offer comes as the government faces increasing anger from relatives of victims that it didn&#8217;t do enough to rescue or protect their loved ones.<\/p>\n<p>South Korean executive power is concentrated in the president, Park Geun-hye, so the offer appears to be largely symbolic. There was no immediate word from Park about whether she would accept the resignation.<\/p>\n<p>Chung was heckled by relatives and his car was blocked when he visited a shelter on an island near the site of the sinking a week ago.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors have arrested all 15 people involved in navigating the ferry that sank April 16.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; SEOUL, South Korea &#8211; South Korea&#8217;s prime minister has offered to resign over the sinking of a ferry that &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":7606,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,1145,17],"tags":[2292,1363,2614,2222],"class_list":["post-8119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-headline","category-news-w","tag-ferry-disaster","tag-prime-minister","tag-resign","tag-south-korea","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8119\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}