{"id":40889,"date":"2018-04-08T18:32:13","date_gmt":"2018-04-08T18:32:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/twitchy.com\/2013\/05\/09\/oh-dear-s-korean-president-fires-spokesman-over-unsavory-act-during-us-visit\/"},"modified":"2018-04-08T18:32:13","modified_gmt":"2018-04-08T18:32:13","slug":"oh-dear-s-korean-president-fires-spokesman-over-unsavory-act-during-us-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/archives\/40889","title":{"rendered":"Oh dear: S. Korean president fires spokesman over ‘unsavory act’ during US visit"},"content":{"rendered":"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/W7VOA\/status\/332576838931058688\n
Evidently, President Obama’s floptastic “Gangham Style” joke<\/a> wasn’t the most awkward part of South Korean President Park Geun-hye’s U.S. visit. Park’s spokesman, Yoon Chang-jung, has reportedly been given the ol’ heave-ho after committing an “unsavory act”:<\/p>\n\n\n #ROK<\/a> pres. press secretary: Yoon “involved in an unsavory incident…inappropriate act for high-level official & hurt the national dignity.”<\/p>\n — Steve Herman (@W7VOA) May 9, 2013<\/a><\/p>\n \n So, what exactly was this alleged unsavory act?\n<\/p>\n\n\n #ROK<\/a> media reporting Yoon was accused of molesting an intern at the Embassy in Washington, DC.<\/p>\n — Steve Herman (@W7VOA) May 9, 2013<\/a><\/p>\n \n Oh dear.<\/p>\n\n\n #ROK<\/a> media report Yoon hurriedly returned to S. Korea, not accompanying Pres. Park from Washington to L.A.<\/p>\n — Steve Herman (@W7VOA) May 9, 2013<\/a><\/p>\n \n It’s so hard to find good press secretaries these<\/a> days<\/a>.<\/p> Read more: http:\/\/twitchy.com\/2013\/05\/09\/oh-dear-s-korean-president-fires-spokesman-over-unsavory-act-during-us-visit\/<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/W7VOA\/status\/332576838931058688 Evidently, President Obama’s floptastic “Gangham Style” joke wasn’t the most awkward part of South Korean President Park Geun-hye’s U.S. visit. Park’s spokesman, Yoon Chang-jung, has reportedly been given the ol’ heave-ho after committing an “unsavory act”: #ROK pres. press secretary: Yoon “involved in an unsavory incident…inappropriate act for high-level official & hurt the national dignity.” — … Continue reading Oh dear: S. Korean president fires spokesman over ‘unsavory act’ during US visit<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":40890,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[180],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-society-culture"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/15231259438758-screen-shot-2013-05-09-at-1-41-12-pm.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40889"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40889\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}