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.
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When the government ordered non-essential workers to stay home in March 2020, Soo-jin’s boyfriend, who had previously been physically aggressive only when drunk, moved into her 18-pyeong (approx. 595 sq ft) apartment “temporarily.” His job at a karaoke room (noraebang) vanished overnight. Without the buffer of work, friends, or the