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The Media Spectacle of a Techno-City: COVID-19 and the South Korean Experience of the State of Emergency (2020)

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This essay provides a critical observation of the South Korean government's distinctive management of COVID-19 with particular reference to the state of emergency. It reveals that the success of South Korea's handling of the pandemic is largely attributed by a majority of Western media to the efficient deployment of both information and communication technologies and Confucian collectivism, two components that seem contradictory yet not incompatible under the rubric of techno-Orientalism. Analyzing the intensification of surveillance and the rapid datafication of society, this essay argues that the current state of emergency is not a breakdown of normality but a continuation of the state of crisis and disaster that rules a developing country like South Korea. In doing so, the essay seeks to facilitate a critical discussion about a new mode of democracy in the era of pandemic that increasingly grapples with tensions between individual freedom and public health.

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Authors & Contributors
Fernando Rosa
Gerardo Ienna
John Harriss
Arnold, David J.
Brigo, Francesco
Merle Eisenberg
Concepts
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)
Public health
Pandemics
Medicine and society
Medicine and politics
Epidemics
Time Periods
21st century
20th century, early
19th century
20th century
Places
India
New Zealand
Japan
Italy
China
Australia
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