{"id":36731,"date":"2019-03-22T10:22:10","date_gmt":"2019-03-22T10:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=36731"},"modified":"2019-03-22T10:22:10","modified_gmt":"2019-03-22T10:22:10","slug":"scandal-threatens-to-end-the-korean-wave-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=36731","title":{"rendered":"Scandal threatens to end the &#8216;Korean Wave&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\">Seoul (CNN)<\/cite>South Korea&#8217;s entertainment industry is a cultural juggernaut that has allowed the East Asian nation to punch well above its weight in terms of global soft power. <\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">But a digital sex scandal that police say involves some of K-Pop&#8217;s biggest stars has rocked the K-Pop world, leaving it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2019\/03\/12\/entertainment\/seungri-big-bang-burning-sun-kpop-scandal-intl\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">facing a reckoning<\/a> from which some believe it might not recover.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">In the past month, four major K-Pop idols have apologized or announced early retirement after being linked to a group chat in which members shared sexual videos of women who were allegedly filmed without their consent. On Thursday, singer Jung Joon-young <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2019\/03\/21\/asia\/jung-joon-young-k-pop-star-arrested-south-korea-scli-intl\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">was arrested<\/a> in connection with the scandal. <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seoul (CNN)South Korea&#8217;s entertainment industry is a cultural juggernaut that has allowed the East Asian nation to punch well above its weight in terms of global soft power. But a digital sex scandal that police say involves some of K-Pop&#8217;s biggest stars has rocked the K-Pop world, leaving it facing a reckoning from which some&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36731\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}