{"id":33157,"date":"2014-05-28T11:00:42","date_gmt":"2014-05-28T16:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whisnews21.com\/?p=33157"},"modified":"2014-05-28T11:00:42","modified_gmt":"2014-05-28T16:00:42","slug":"south-korea-implemented-parking-spots-specifically-for-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/2014\/05\/28\/south-korea-implemented-parking-spots-specifically-for-women\/","title":{"rendered":"South Korea Implemented parking spots for Women"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/whisnews21.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/05\/womanparking.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-33158\" src=\"http:\/\/whisnews21.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/05\/womanparking.jpg\" alt=\"WomanParking\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/womanparking.jpg 640w, https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/womanparking-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a>South Korea has now implemented parking spots designed specifically for women.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>NBC reports: &#8220;The spots are longer and they&#8217;re wider and they are marked with bright pink outlines and figures. Believe it or not, the so-called &#8216;she spots&#8217; are part of a government initiative to make Seoul more female friendly.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Motoring reports the South Korean government will be spending about $100 million on a &#8220;Women-Friendly Seoul&#8221; project. Part of that $100 million went toward the parking spots.<\/p>\n<p>The assistant mayor of Women and Family Affairs at the Seoul Metropolitan Government told The Korea Times: &#8220;It is like adding a female touch to a universal design and make things more comfortable for women.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But not everyone is so impressed with South Korea&#8217;s attempts at making society more woman-friendly.<\/p>\n<p>The Huffington Post began a story with the words, &#8220;And now for the latest news from the world of staggeringly patronizing things.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And a writer for Metro writes: &#8220;Are women worse drivers than men? South Korea certainly seems to think so. &#8230; Not at all patronizing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>However, South Korea isn&#8217;t the only country with gender-specific parking spots.<\/p>\n<p>ABC reports a town in Germany designated both men-only and women-only parking spots in 2012.<\/p>\n<p>And The Independent says Austria, China, Kuwait, Malaysia, Indonesia and Italy also have women-only parking spots.<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Korea has now implemented parking spots designed specifically for women. NBC reports: &#8220;The spots are longer and they&#8217;re wider and they are marked with bright pink outlines and figures. Believe it or not, the so-called &#8216;she spots&#8217; are part of a government initiative to make Seoul more female friendly.&#8221; Motoring reports the South Korean government will be spending about $100 million on a &#8220;Women-Friendly Seoul&#8221; project. Part of that $100 million went toward the parking spots. The assistant mayor of Women and Family Affairs at the Seoul Metropolitan Government<a href=\"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/2014\/05\/28\/south-korea-implemented-parking-spots-specifically-for-women\/\" class=\"read-more\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33158,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33157"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33157\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}