{"id":9497,"date":"2008-12-26T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-26T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"pawnshops-booming-through-economic-slump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/12\/2008\/pawnshops-booming-through-economic-slump.html","title":{"rendered":"Pawnshops Booming Through Economic Slump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Korea Times &#8211; Getting wedding invitations has become a new stress factor for 28-year-old Cho Mi-young who already has three to attend next month. That&#8217;s because each event costs her about 50,000 to 100,000 won on congratulatory cash gifts.<\/p>\n<p> Knowing that a bunch of her other friends and coworkers are getting married in the next few months, Cho decided to give up her four-year-old Prada bag and like-new Celine pumps to comfortably shoulder the expense.<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;I&#8217;ll be less burdened if I secure the money ahead of time,&#8221; said the middle manager at a Seoul hotel, who recently lost nearly 50 percent of her savings through investments in Asia-focused hedge funds. <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/news_land.php?i=http:\/\/www.koreatimes.co.kr\/www\/news\/biz\/2008\/12\/123_36812.html\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/news_land.php?i=http:\/\/www.koreatimes.co.kr\/www\/news\/biz\/2008\/12\/123_36812.html\">Read Complete Article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/news_land.php?i=http:\/\/www.koreatimes.co.kr\/www\/news\/biz\/2008\/12\/123_36812.html\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Korea Times &#8211; Getting wedding invitations has become a new stress factor for 28-year-old Cho Mi-young who already has three to attend next month. That&#8217;s because each event costs her about 50,000 to 100,000 won on congratulatory cash gifts. Knowing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[459,4623,4626,4624,1482,1480,48,4625,4627,4620,4621,4622],"class_list":["post-9497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated","tag-asia","tag-cash-gifts","tag-cho","tag-coworkers","tag-investments","tag-korea-times","tag-money","tag-prada","tag-pumps","tag-seoul-hotel","tag-stress-factor","tag-wedding-invitations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9497\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}