{"id":535245,"date":"2026-04-17T02:56:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T02:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/535245\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T02:56:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T02:56:08","slug":"neukgu-south-koreas-runaway-wolf-finally-captured-after-nine-day-search","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/535245\/","title":{"rendered":"Neukgu: South Korea&#8217;s runaway wolf finally captured after nine-day search"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Neukgu, the two-year-old wolf who broke loose from a South Korean zoo and captured the nation&#8217;s attention, has finally been captured following a nine-day long search.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Neukgu was captured near an expressway on Friday at 00:44 local time (16:44 GMT), according to the government of Daejeon, the central city where his zoo was located.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Upon a medical examination, Neukgu&#8217;s pulse and body temperature were normal, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hundreds of rescue officials had been deployed to find the wolf, and there were a couple of times when authorities came close to getting him &#8211; but each time the net seemed to be closing in, Neukgu would slink away. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Neukgu, the two-year-old wolf who broke loose from a South Korean zoo and captured the nation&#8217;s attention, has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":535246,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-535245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=535245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535245\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/535246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=535245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=535245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=535245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}