As South Korea battles a snowballing number of Covid-19 cases, the government is letting people know if they were in the vicinity of a patient. But the volume of information has led to some awkward moments and now there is as much fear of social stigma as of illness, as Hyung Eun Kim of BBC News Korean reports.
As I sit at home, my phone beeps alarmingly with emergency alerts.
"A 43-year-old man, resident of Nowon district, tested positive for coronavirus," it says.
"He was at his work in Mapo district attending a sexual harassment class. He contracted the virus from the instructor of the class."
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