‘We can’t stop for a second’: the centre tracking South Korea’s stalkers in real time

Since June, an app has allowed survivors, who are overwhelmingly women, to see exactly where their stalker is On a large screen in a control centre in eastern Seoul, a dot representing a man closes in on a woman. The dot changes direction, and the distance reading between them falls from 845 metres to 792. On the woman’s phone, the same map is loading. A probation officer rings her: the stalker is approaching, don’t panic, officers have been dispatched.

The man is a stand-in and the scenario is staged, but the system is real.

Read the original report at The Guardian.