{"id":15474,"date":"2020-03-06T13:46:14","date_gmt":"2020-03-06T04:46:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/mar\/06\/more-scary-than-coronavirus-south-koreas-health-alerts-expose-private-lives"},"modified":"2020-03-06T13:46:14","modified_gmt":"2020-03-06T04:46:14","slug":"more-scary-than-coronavirus-south-koreas-health-alerts-expose-private-lives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=15474","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;More scary than coronavirus&#8217;: South Korea&#8217;s health alerts expose private lives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Safety guidance texts\u2019 sent by the authorities contain an avalanche of personal information and are fuelling social stigma<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2020\/mar\/06\/coronavirus-update-latest-live-news-symptoms-cases-global-infection-rate-uk-usa-australia-italy-china-updates\">Coronavirus latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As the number of coronavirus cases in South Korea exceeded 6,000 this week, there was a rise, too, in complaints about information overload in the form of emergency virus text alerts that have included embarrassing revelations about infected people\u2019s private lives.<\/p>\n<p>Health authorities and district offices across the country are sending \u201csafety guidance texts\u201d from early morning to late at night, reminding people to wash their hands thoroughly and not to touch their faces with unwashed hands.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/mar\/06\/more-scary-than-coronavirus-south-koreas-health-alerts-expose-private-lives\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Safety guidance texts\u2019 sent by the authorities contain an avalanche of personal information and are fuelling social stigmaCoronavirus latest updatesAs the number of coronavirus cases in South Korea exceeded 6,000 this week, there was a rise, too, in c&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1056,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,1069,914,299,222,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-infectious-diseases","category-science","category-south-korea","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1056"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15474"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15475,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15474\/revisions\/15475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}