{"id":774,"date":"2023-03-16T07:33:16","date_gmt":"2023-03-16T07:33:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/a-south-korean-prison-for-people-seeking-peace-bbc-reel\/"},"modified":"2023-03-16T07:33:16","modified_gmt":"2023-03-16T07:33:16","slug":"a-south-korean-prison-for-people-seeking-peace-bbc-reel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/a-south-korean-prison-for-people-seeking-peace-bbc-reel\/","title":{"rendered":"A South Korean \u2018prison\u2019 for people seeking peace &#8211; BBC REEL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TpJE6BPpsyY?autoplay=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>A former prosecutor came up with a bizarre antidote those seeking solitude: being locked in a cell for two days.<\/p>\n<p>After working nearly 100 hours a week every week for six months, lawyer Kwon Yong-suk started wondering if solitary confinement in prison might be a better alternative to his situation.<\/p>\n<p>A prison warden friend told him volunteering to stay in a real jail cell would involve too much red tape, so in 2002 Kwon set the wheels in motion to create a jail-like retreat where people like him could find some peace and solitude.<\/p>\n<p>Opening in 2013 in the countryside outside Seoul, visitors to his facility come for two days and are locked in a cell for 20 hours at a time \u2013 free from their phones, emails and the countless distractions of modern life.<\/p>\n<p>Video by Kwon Moon. Additional editing by Bowen Li.<\/p>\n<p>For more videos from BBC REEL visit: http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/reel\/<\/p>\n<p>#bbcreel #bbc #bbcnews<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=TpJE6BPpsyY\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A former prosecutor came up with a bizarre antidote those seeking solitude: being locked in a cell for two days. After working nearly 100 hours a week every week for six months, lawyer Kwon Yong-suk started wondering if solitary confinement in prison might be a better alternative to his situation. A prison warden friend told [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":775,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[15,114],"class_list":["post-774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-history","tag-bbc","tag-bbc-future","post_format-post-format-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}