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05-30-2014, 08:23 AM
South Korea's Wider Parking Spaces for Women: Neither New **r Wider
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How old can news be?
The reality of the news business these days is that if you are website, you have to move fast and attract as many eyeballs (read: clicks) as possible. The result is that sometimes the articles we read and share are **t as accurate as they should, and sometimes they are just plain old — like five years old.
See also: 10 Countries With the Highest Proportion of Women in Parliament (http://mashable.com/2014/05/24/women-in-parliament/?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)
Take the case of the outrageous, ***ist, women-only parking spots in Seoul, South Korea. You might have seen this story breathlessly covered in the past few days on the Today Show (http://www.today.com/video/today/55268721#55268721), The Huffington Post UK (http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/05/26/womens-parking-spaces-in-seoul_n_5392093.html?just_reloaded=1), The New York Daily News (http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/s-korea-introduces-female-only-parking-spots-article-1.1806567), the Daily Mail (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2636430/South-Korea-introduces-women-parking-spaces-longer-wider.html#ixzz32u8SZaES), The Independent (http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/south-korea-creates-wome**nly-parking-spaces-which-are-longer-wider--and-marked-by-pink-chalk-figures-wearing-skirts-9435686.html), and Fusion (http://fusion.net/modern_life/story/seoul-introduces-women-parking-spots-make-city-female-721002#?utm_campaign=tifn_seoul_women_parking), among many, many others. A search on Google News turns up more than 15,000 hits Read more... (http://mashable.com/2014/05/30/south-koea-women-only-parking/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)
More about South Korea (http://mashable.com/category/south-korea/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss), Feminism (http://mashable.com/category/feminism/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss), Virality (http://mashable.com/category/virality/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss), Media (http://mashable.com/media/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss), and Us World (http://mashable.com/us-world/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Mashable/~4/dpOgWXMV0ps
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How old can news be?
The reality of the news business these days is that if you are website, you have to move fast and attract as many eyeballs (read: clicks) as possible. The result is that sometimes the articles we read and share are **t as accurate as they should, and sometimes they are just plain old — like five years old.
See also: 10 Countries With the Highest Proportion of Women in Parliament (http://mashable.com/2014/05/24/women-in-parliament/?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)
Take the case of the outrageous, ***ist, women-only parking spots in Seoul, South Korea. You might have seen this story breathlessly covered in the past few days on the Today Show (http://www.today.com/video/today/55268721#55268721), The Huffington Post UK (http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/05/26/womens-parking-spaces-in-seoul_n_5392093.html?just_reloaded=1), The New York Daily News (http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/s-korea-introduces-female-only-parking-spots-article-1.1806567), the Daily Mail (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2636430/South-Korea-introduces-women-parking-spaces-longer-wider.html#ixzz32u8SZaES), The Independent (http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/south-korea-creates-wome**nly-parking-spaces-which-are-longer-wider--and-marked-by-pink-chalk-figures-wearing-skirts-9435686.html), and Fusion (http://fusion.net/modern_life/story/seoul-introduces-women-parking-spots-make-city-female-721002#?utm_campaign=tifn_seoul_women_parking), among many, many others. A search on Google News turns up more than 15,000 hits Read more... (http://mashable.com/2014/05/30/south-koea-women-only-parking/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)
More about South Korea (http://mashable.com/category/south-korea/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss), Feminism (http://mashable.com/category/feminism/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss), Virality (http://mashable.com/category/virality/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss), Media (http://mashable.com/media/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss), and Us World (http://mashable.com/us-world/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Mashable/~4/dpOgWXMV0ps