Lee Yoon-ki By Lee Yoon-ki
With the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, Korea’s economy not only recorded one of its worst economic contractions since the Great Recession of 2008, but also shrank for the first time in 22 years since the 1998 Asian Financial crisis. In the midst of this economic turmoil, a fundamental question lies at the heart of the discussion: how is the pandemic undermining social justice?
Social justice means that everyone has an equal opportunity to education, employment, healthcare and security. However, the outbreak has amplified health, income and education inequalities, and also exacerbated economic polarization. […]
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