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6 comments 6On December 27, 2021, at a cafe in Gangnam, Seoul, I launched the vaccination history management app "COOV". I passed my cell phone through the scanner because I was relieved that I didn't have to keep the record in the handwritten list that anyone could see because I had the vaccination record in the United States registered at the health center. The result is "Cannot scan"! The shopkeeper urged me to show the QR code for my neighbors and cacao. I picked up a ballpoint pen that many used and wrote my phone number under dozens of phone numbers. And that night, I woke up an account for a neighbor who had been sleeping for more than five years. He discriminated against pushing the Naver app to the third screen, and even wrote down a new 14-digit password in his diary, which was exhausting his imagination. Who did the neighbors and cacao get forgiveness, when and how did they become national institutions? Every time I changed my cell phone, I couldn't shake off the anxieties caused by the privatization of the telephone company. Is it okay for me to put my full trust in the staff sitting in front of me while suffering from employment insecurity? Many elderly people visit the mobile phone counter as if they were going to a pharmacy for something. I handed over my personal information to my PIN and relied on the staff there like a civil servant at a telephone office, but is this okay? It is an information and communication nation entrusted to good intentions. Two friends in their mid-50s got paid in advance at the Deoksugung National Museum of Contemporary Art, where they stopped by to see the Park Su-geun exhibition. Unlike the claim on the exhibition information site that it is possible to purchase on-site, only online purchases were allowed on-site. In order to pay the entrance fee of 2000 won (about 191 yen), the two faced the screen of the smartphone and moved their fingers while muttering whether it was a soliloquy or an answer to the text written on the site. However, I finally gave up and decided to take a walk in the old palace. Perhaps he didn't want to feel the regret of failing many times while trying to submit to the machine while saying hehehe. As you get older, your regrets turn into helplessness, and you may even fall into "depression." A 60-year-old acquaintance is looking for a room in Seoul to take care of his 80-year-old mother. Her mother managed her husband's hospital procedures and treatment schedules alone until just five years ago, but now she can't even cross the threshold of her office. She made her aware that the pre-test procedures performed on her smartphone are now in a world where she can't live by just walking and recognizing. She became depressed because she became dependent on her child. My 84-year-old mother also took a bus to a major supermarket that strongly recommended making a card to cancel the Samsung Card, but the card company's office has disappeared and I asked to cancel it on the Internet. I was just told. Is it because of that emptiness? Her mother confessed that she had been drowsy for a while, as the intersection she had been through for nearly 30 years looked like an unknown place. The world of walking, or at best riding a community bus, is disappearing. Not only in South Korea. The public parking lot in front of Boston City Hall in the United States must have the app installed in order to pay the usage fee. Even if the usage fee is only $ 1.40, you have to provide everything so that you can access not only personal information but also contacts and photos stored on your smartphone. Moreover, even if the elderly can drive, they are caught in the hurdles of automation, and it is difficult to easily go out to the city. It's a wave of automation accelerated in the Korona-ka. Then, is the power that is causing this wave the public interest of "prevention of epidemics"? "different". I want to answer with Staccato. A very specific and collective force that is trying to reduce labor costs and costs and increase profits is what power is. In the summer of 2019, a group of female workers stood on a tollhouse on a toll road in Seoul. They resisted withdrawing the 1500 collective dismissals. In the winter of 2022, many people passing through the increased high-pass filter (automatic toll collection system for toll roads, equivalent to ETC in Japan) are in a whirlwind of "digital capitalism" where they cannot even know who is the main body of the fight. I'm in. Growth in the Fourth Industrial is being called for, but the reality is that it strikes as a very concrete inequality. This is a destructive deprivation of consumer rights and public services, leaning towards the destruction of the labor market like an ellipsis. It is an "unauthorized outsourcing of government" and a government sabotage that strives to depress the public for the benefit of the company and pretends to be ignorant. Sociologist Emile Durkheim has published the theory that "people decide to commit suicide when social norms and values collapse." When the norms that we believe and rely on collapse and our values fall, the will of life must be defeated. It's an era when it finally starts to move in terms of gold, so I hope the government will at least calculate the cost of tomorrow when depression will be forced. Ann Higyeong ｜ Journalist in the US (Inquiries japan@hani.co.kr)
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