{"id":145,"date":"2024-10-24T09:11:37","date_gmt":"2024-10-24T08:11:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foreignersph.com\/?p=145"},"modified":"2024-10-24T09:11:37","modified_gmt":"2024-10-24T08:11:37","slug":"usa-sample-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foreignersph.com\/index.php\/2024\/10\/24\/usa-sample-2\/","title":{"rendered":"USA Sample 2"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Every year, thousands of South Koreans \u2013 mostly middle-aged men \u2013 die quietly and alone, cut off from their family and friends. It sometimes takes days or even weeks before their bodies are found.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These are the country\u2019s&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/12\/18\/asia\/south-korea-godoksa-lonely-death-intl-hnk-dst\/index.html\">\u201clonely deaths,\u201d known as godoksa<\/a>&nbsp;in Korean. It\u2019s part of a larger problem of loneliness and isolation across the country, an issue so pressing the government is pulling out all the stops to fight it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the bustling capital Seoul, city authorities announced this week they would spend 451.3 billion won (nearly $327 million) over the next five years to \u201ccreate a city where no-one is lonely.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"256\" height=\"144\" src=\"https:\/\/foreignersph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/image-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-146\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Their new initiatives include loneliness counselors available on a 24\/7 hotline, an online platform for similar counseling, as well as follow-up measures including in-person visits and consultations, according to the metropolitan government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cLoneliness and isolation are not just individual problems, but tasks that society must solve together,\u201d Seoul mayor Oh Se-hoon said in&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/news.seoul.go.kr\/welfare\/archives\/565798\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">a news release<\/a>. The city will \u201cmobilize all of our municipal capacity\u201d to help lonely people heal and \u201creturn to society,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every year, thousands of South Koreans \u2013 mostly middle-aged men \u2013 die quietly and alone, cut off from their family and friends. It sometimes takes days or even weeks before their bodies are found. These are the country\u2019s&nbsp;\u201clonely deaths,\u201d known as godoksa&nbsp;in Korean. It\u2019s part of a larger problem of loneliness and isolation across the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignersph.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignersph.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignersph.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignersph.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignersph.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/foreignersph.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":147,"href":"https:\/\/foreignersph.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145\/revisions\/147"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignersph.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignersph.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignersph.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignersph.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}