{"id":181070,"date":"2023-10-25T16:35:40","date_gmt":"2023-10-25T16:35:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotworldreport.com\/?p=181070"},"modified":"2023-10-25T16:35:40","modified_gmt":"2023-10-25T16:35:40","slug":"man-82-dies-after-choking-on-live-octopus-served-in-south-korea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotworldreport.com\/world-news\/man-82-dies-after-choking-on-live-octopus-served-in-south-korea\/","title":{"rendered":"Man, 82, dies after choking on live octopus served in South Korea"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Man, 82, dies after choking on live octopus served as a delicacy in South Korea<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The victim was eating a piece of live octopus when it became stuck in his throat<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The 82-year-old man suffered a cardiac arrest as he was choking on the delicacy\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>An 82-year-old man has died in South Korea after choking on a piece of live octopus, a local delicacy of freshly severed &#8211; and still moving &#8211; tentacles.<\/p>\n<p>The victim was eating a piece of live octopus, known as san-nakji, in the southern city of Gwangju when it became stuck in his throat on Monday morning.<\/p>\n<p>The pensioner suffered cardiac arrest as he was choking on the octopus and could not be revived by first responders at the scene, the Korea Herald reported.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Medics had raced to the scene after an emergency call at 11.38am but they were unable to resuscitate the man, who was later pronounced dead at a local hospital.<\/p>\n<p>San-nakji is a local delicacy in South Korea, especially in the coastal regions, and is served immediately after cutting off the octopus&#8217; tentacles, meaning they are still wriggling on the plate.<span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/25\/16\/76991711-12671621-image-a-46_1698249483993.jpg\" height=\"397\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>An 82-year-old man has died in South Korea after choking on a piece of live octopus, a local delicacy of freshly severed &#8211; and still moving &#8211; tentacles (file image of the dish)<\/p>\n<p>But the dish, traditionally served drizzled with sesame oil, poses a significant health risk and people are advised to cut it into smaller piece and chew thoroughly before swallowing.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Whilst rare, the delicacy can prove fatal &#8211; as was the case with the 82-year-old man in Gwangju.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Between 2007 and 2012, three people died after choking on the live octopus, according to data from Seoul Fire and Disaster Headquarters.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Two more people died in 2013 and a man in his 70s died in 2019 after choking on the san-nakji dish, according to local media reports.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As a result, the delicacy has been described as among the world&#8217;s most dangerous foods, alongside the likes of bullfrogs and the poisonous pufferfish.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But the dish has become popular with thrill-seeking tourists, who have posted videos of themselves eating the live octopus on YouTube.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And in 2015, during an episode of Anthony Bourdain&#8217;s CNN series &#8216;Parts Unknown,&#8217; the famous chef used his chopsticks to peel a tentacle off his plate as he tried the delicacy.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The dish also made headlines in 2012, when a South Korean man was sentenced to live imprisonment for allegedly killing his girlfriend and claiming it was a san-nakji accident.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He was acquitted a year later by the Supreme Court for insufficient evidence, reported local media at the time.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-12671621\/Man-82-dies-choking-live-octopus-served-delicacy-South-Korea.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Man, 82, dies after choking on live octopus served as a delicacy in South Korea The victim was eating a piece of live octopus when it became stuck in his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":181069,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Man, 82, dies after choking on live octopus served in South Korea - Hot World Report<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/hotworldreport.com\/world-news\/man-82-dies-after-choking-on-live-octopus-served-in-south-korea\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Man, 82, dies after choking on live octopus served in South Korea - Hot World Report\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Man, 82, dies after choking on live octopus served as a delicacy in South Korea The victim was eating a piece of live octopus when it became stuck in his [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/hotworldreport.com\/world-news\/man-82-dies-after-choking-on-live-octopus-served-in-south-korea\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Hot World Report\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2023-10-25T16:35:40+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Tracy\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:image\" content=\"https:\/\/hotworldreport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Man-82-dies-after-choking-on-live-octopus-served-in-South-Korea.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Tracy\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/hotworldreport.com\/world-news\/man-82-dies-after-choking-on-live-octopus-served-in-south-korea\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/hotworldreport.com\/world-news\/man-82-dies-after-choking-on-live-octopus-served-in-south-korea\/\",\"name\":\"Man, 82, dies after choking on live octopus served in South Korea - Hot World Report\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/hotworldreport.com\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2023-10-25T16:35:40+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-10-25T16:35:40+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/hotworldreport.com\/#\/schema\/person\/74db1979fe71b5ea01513ec1ce5bc609\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/hotworldreport.com\/world-news\/man-82-dies-after-choking-on-live-octopus-served-in-south-korea\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/hotworldreport.com\/world-news\/man-82-dies-after-choking-on-live-octopus-served-in-south-korea\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/hotworldreport.com\/world-news\/man-82-dies-after-choking-on-live-octopus-served-in-south-korea\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/hotworldreport.com\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"World News\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/hotworldreport.com\/category\/world-news\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":3,\"name\":\"Man, 82, dies after choking on live octopus served in South Korea\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/hotworldreport.com\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/hotworldreport.com\/\",\"name\":\"Hot World Report\",\"description\":\"\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/hotworldreport.com\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/hotworldreport.com\/#\/schema\/person\/74db1979fe71b5ea01513ec1ce5bc609\",\"name\":\"Tracy\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/hotworldreport.com\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/d4e61f3f3828292a4daf0b7f321ab5a8?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/d4e61f3f3828292a4daf0b7f321ab5a8?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Tracy\"}}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Man, 82, dies after choking on live octopus served in South Korea - Hot World Report","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/hotworldreport.com\/world-news\/man-82-dies-after-choking-on-live-octopus-served-in-south-korea\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Man, 82, dies after choking on live octopus served in South Korea - Hot World Report","og_description":"Man, 82, dies after choking on live octopus served as a delicacy in South Korea The victim was eating a piece of live octopus when it became stuck in his [&hellip;]","og_url":"https:\/\/hotworldreport.com\/world-news\/man-82-dies-after-choking-on-live-octopus-served-in-south-korea\/","og_site_name":"Hot World Report","article_published_time":"2023-10-25T16:35:40+00:00","author":"Tracy","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_image":"https:\/\/hotworldreport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Man-82-dies-after-choking-on-live-octopus-served-in-South-Korea.jpg","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Tracy","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/hotworldreport.com\/world-news\/man-82-dies-after-choking-on-live-octopus-served-in-south-korea\/","url":"https:\/\/hotworldreport.com\/world-news\/man-82-dies-after-choking-on-live-octopus-served-in-south-korea\/","name":"Man, 82, dies after choking on live octopus served in South Korea - Hot World Report","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/hotworldreport.com\/#website"},"datePublished":"2023-10-25T16:35:40+00:00","dateModified":"2023-10-25T16:35:40+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/hotworldreport.com\/#\/schema\/person\/74db1979fe71b5ea01513ec1ce5bc609"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/hotworldreport.com\/world-news\/man-82-dies-after-choking-on-live-octopus-served-in-south-korea\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/hotworldreport.com\/world-news\/man-82-dies-after-choking-on-live-octopus-served-in-south-korea\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/hotworldreport.com\/world-news\/man-82-dies-after-choking-on-live-octopus-served-in-south-korea\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/hotworldreport.com\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"World News","item":"https:\/\/hotworldreport.com\/category\/world-news\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Man, 82, dies after choking on live octopus served in South Korea"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/hotworldreport.com\/#website","url":"https:\/\/hotworldreport.com\/","name":"Hot World Report","description":"","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/hotworldreport.com\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/hotworldreport.com\/#\/schema\/person\/74db1979fe71b5ea01513ec1ce5bc609","name":"Tracy","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/hotworldreport.com\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/d4e61f3f3828292a4daf0b7f321ab5a8?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/d4e61f3f3828292a4daf0b7f321ab5a8?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Tracy"}}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotworldreport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181070"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotworldreport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotworldreport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotworldreport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotworldreport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hotworldreport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181070\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotworldreport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotworldreport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotworldreport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotworldreport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}