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cord-033759-cjxzenld	Kang, Jaeho	The Media Spectacle of a Techno-City: COVID-19 and the South Korean Experience of the State of Emergency	2020-08-17		.txt	text/plain	4547	232	54	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. 7 Les Echos, the oldest French financial newspaper, featured an opinion column arguing that the French government should not sacrifice individual freedoms by adopting the tracking measures deployed by South Korea, a totalitarian country with "a culture of hyper-surveillance and denunciation." 8 The Asia Times, a Hong Kong-based news platform, stressed that Confucian Asian countries were winning the war against COVID-19 while Western countries were losing the battle with "fear, panic and hysteria." 9 The portrayal of Korea as a Confucian patriarchal country-that is, a hierarchical, homogeneous, monolithic, traditional, and collectivist society in Asia-is not only found in media outlets but also resonates in a more sophisticated and philosophical way among prominent intellectuals.	./cache/cord-033759-cjxzenld.txt	./txt/cord-033759-cjxzenld.txt