Desperate, she turned to private loans from loan sharks (사채) who do not respect lockdown boundaries. When she couldn’t pay, the debt collectors began showing up at her officetel door. The police would not come because loan shark harassment during a pandemic was “low priority.”
Without the buffer of work, friends, or the subway commute, the abuse escalated from weekly to hourly. Soo-jin later testified to a women’s crisis center that the lockdown’s digital infrastructure—the very tracking apps meant to stop COVID—became her jailer. Her boyfriend used the “Self-Quarantine Safety Protection App” to verify she never left the apartment without him.
Therefore, I have written a substantive, journalistic article below based on the behind your fragmented keyword: that lockdowns cannot save everyone from every danger, particularly the hidden crises at home. Corona Lockdown Won’t Save This Korean Babe From the Crisis Inside Her Own Home By J. H. Kim, Social Affairs Correspondent
