{"id":6589,"date":"2026-08-15T00:20:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T04:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=6589"},"modified":"2025-12-15T19:42:53","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T00:42:53","slug":"south-korea-celebrates-liberation-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=6589","title":{"rendered":"South Korea Celebrates Liberation Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_6969\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6969\" class=\" wp-image-6969\" src=\"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/South-Korea-Flag2.gif\" alt=\"South Korea Flag\" width=\"190\" height=\"127\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-6969\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Flag of South Korea<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>South Korea celebrates Liberation Day<\/strong>. In 1945 it became free of Japanese rule. Its area is slightly larger than the area of Indiana, and mountains and hills cover the northwestern portion while a coastal plain covers the southeastern portion. Almost 49 million people live there, and Seoul is the capital.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Korea celebrates Liberation Day. In 1945 it became free of Japanese rule. Its area is slightly larger than the area of Indiana, and mountains and hills cover the northwestern portion while a coastal plain covers the southeastern portion. Almost 49 million people live there, and Seoul is the capital.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[4701,3221,5784,999,277,1163],"class_list":["post-6589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-4701","tag-asia","tag-august-15","tag-japan","tag-liberation-day","tag-south-korea","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6589"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30156,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6589\/revisions\/30156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}