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“Tourism development threatens Islands<\/strong>”\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 By Tim Edelsten<\/p>\n Many people visit islands to escape the city, yet developers are rapidly bringing urban sprawl to the islands, destroying their character and charm.<\/p>\n It is depressing to realize that of the 2900 Korean Islands, only 170 are officially protected from this wave of tasteless development….<\/p>\n http:\/\/www.koreatimes.co.kr\/www\/news\/opinon\/2012\/07\/137_115740.html<\/a><\/p>\n * Please be aware that any minor grammar mistakes, or awkward turn of phrase\u00a0are due\u00a0to\u00a0“corrections” made by\u00a0the\u00a0 the sub-editor.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" “Tourism development threatens Islands”\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 By Tim Edelsten Many people visit islands to escape the city, yet developers are rapidly bringing urban sprawl to the islands, destroying their character and charm. It is depressing to realize that of the 2900 … read more<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[22,273,133,342,343],"class_list":["post-5395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conservation","tag-conservation-2","tag-development","tag-harmful-development","tag-islands","tag-tourism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5395"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5397,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5395\/revisions\/5397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}