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written by 20725 Jung Jaewon   Part two of this five-part series, the Opinion section of the  PRESS  took an investigated look at China and how they reacted to the pandemic early on. China   China, the origin of COVID-19, was the most dangerous country with the highest number of infections until early this year. The number of infected people quickly increased to 80,000. This number was a huge gap compared to South Korea, which had the second-highest number of infected people in the spring. In the early stages of the virus, China declared martial law to prevent infection by controlling its people. China has not shared its data about COVID-19. Its government claims that China is not the origin of this epidemic. Wuhan, China, was the first region to be infected by this virus. However, the Communist Party of China claims the pandemic did not have come from China due to its quarantine measures. They also praise themselves for their quick action to quarantine ...

written by 10308 Kim Chaewon, 10817 Jeong Daeun  20228 Hwang Uikyu, 20725 Jung Jaewon,   In 2020, a great crisis spread quickly to become a worldwide pandemic, which threw the world into chaos. The whole world has become unable to live like before and is trying to correct each other’s problems. Day-to-day confirmed patient-related messages have become a necessity, not an option in our present life. Life without a mask is hard to think of now. More than ever, students spend more time at home because of school closures and are taking online classes. Instead of going to the office, adults are working from home while taking care of their families. World leaders and people have blamed each other for the spread and handling of the virus. Some countries have become secretive about their research, vaccine development, data and numbers of COVID-19 patients. Other countries are following the World Health Organization protocols and working closely together to find a cure.  Howev...

  written by  10308 Kim Chaewon In the final of the five part series titled "Personal Privacy Versus People's Rights to Know," the Opinion department looked into why people are arguing that it is their right to know. People’s Right to Know   COVID-19 is a highly contagious virus since it can be transmitted into the air by saliva from coughs or other ways. Not only is it contagious, but it has fatalistic power, resulting in several deaths by the infection. If there is a perception of the fact that preventing further confirmed cases is the most important thing in this situation, the exposure of COVID-19’s movements should be made by the right to know.  The government has announced the movement for the people’s right to know. As a result, it was relatively effective in preventing the spread of the virus. For example, due to the tracing of the superconductor’s movement, such as patient 101, it became a little bit easier to stop the spread of COVID-19.   My O...

  written by  20228 Hwang Uikyu In part four of the five part series titled "Personal Privacy Versus People's Rights to Know," the Opinion department looked into how the Constitution of the Republic of Korea protects personal privacy. We Have To Protect Personal Privacy   Individual privacy is recognized by the Constitution of the Republic of Korea. People have the right to protect themselves. The Constitution is the highest law of the nation, because the will of all people created it for the basic order of the nation and the rights and obligations of the people. The Constitution is the basic ideology of all laws in the country. It is designed so that the state cannot infringe upon the people’s rights. It also contributes to the development of a free democratic country by stipulating the governance system of the country. Article 21 of the Korean Constitution stipulates that all citizens are free to press, publish, freely assemble and form a society. This is in ...

written by   10817 Jeong Daeun, In part three of the five part series titled "Personal Privacy Versus People's Rights to Know," the Opinion department looked into how delayed information affected the area. Delayed Information Affects People’s Rights to Know   The term “right to know” refers to each citizen's right to demand and receive all kinds of information and ideas unobstructed. Information here refers to information on state affairs in a narrow way but includes private company’s information, especially the mass media industry, military industry, and pollution industry. In other words, it means freedom of information. Specifically, it is the right to demand freedom of messenger activities in mass communication. It is the right of each citizen to demand information on state affairs. According to KBS, which reported on COVID-19’s right to know in August, “The recent increase in the number of confirmed COVID-19 has raised public anxiety. Furthermore, there a...

  written by   20725 Jung Jaewon In part two of the five part series titled "Personal Privacy Versus People's Rights to Know," the Opinion department looked into how businesses were affected by the right to know. The Right to Know Has a Bad Influence on Stores   For people’s safety, informing the route of infected people affected individuals and the surrounding buildings and stores that did nothing wrong in preventative regulations. Many stores greatly suffered in March and April, when the number of the infected population increased nationwide. People were reluctant to go to those stores when the routes of infected people were announced in the general area. The problem was that many stores have seen a sharp decrease in the number of people coming. Even though the infected people did not go through them, the stores nearby the infected route lost money. Last March, a group of infected people went to a restaurant in Daegu for about three minutes and left. The locat...