Affairs, cult membership, even the length of individuals' lunch breaks are publicly revealed. FMTNews SouthKorea
An official gestures as she and her colleagues make calls to track potentially infected members of Shincheonji church.
Across the country, local authorities have been issuing emergency alerts by mobile phone to those living or working in districts where new cases have been confirmed. And the consequences have been sometimes been embarrassing, even brutal, with the National Human Rights Commission describing them as “human rights violations”.
“I am having a hard time mentally, more so than pain,” she wrote on her Facebook account, which she has since turned private, asking other users not to share her personal information.Michael Hurt, a sociologist at Korea National University of Arts, said that while the alerts reassure the public that authorities are dealing with the epidemic, they can unintentionally lead to “the stigmatisation of areas as infected or ‘dangerous’.
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