{"id":63200,"date":"2026-10-21T14:58:53","date_gmt":"2026-10-21T14:58:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/bukangi-huge-crowds-watch-shark-stranded-in-busan-south-korea\/"},"modified":"2026-10-21T14:58:53","modified_gmt":"2026-10-21T14:58:53","slug":"bukangi-huge-crowds-watch-shark-stranded-in-busan-south-korea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/bukangi-huge-crowds-watch-shark-stranded-in-busan-south-korea\/","title":{"rendered":"Bukangi: Huge crowds watch shark stranded in Busan, South Korea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Huge crowds have flocked to a canal in South Korea to watch a stranded shark. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 9ft 10in (3m) shark, nicknamed Bukangi, was first spotted in the waterway last month in the south-eastern city of Busan. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Now a third attempt has been made to rescue the female using nets to guide her back to the open sea. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It is thought the shark may have been drawn to the canal by unusually warm water and plenty of fish. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The BBC&#8217;s Seoul correspondent Jake Kwon goes to Busan to follow the latest attempt to rescue Bukangi.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><i><b>Video edited by Marina Costa, filmed by Hosu Lee.<\/b><\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/videos\/ckq6n56e5qrqo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Huge crowds have flocked to a canal in South Korea to watch a stranded shark. The 9ft 10in (3m) shark, nicknamed Bukangi, was first spotted in the waterway last month in the south-eastern city of Busan. Now a third attempt has been made to rescue the female using nets to guide her back to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":63201,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63200"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63202,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63200\/revisions\/63202"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}