COVID-19 Government Measures and Everyday Life of People on Jeju Island, South Korea
Many of those who endured the violence of Jeju Sasam (also called Jeju 4.3) are now in their 70s and 80s, residing in single-person households in South Korea, and their families have been dispersed throughout Osaka and the mainland in pursuit of economic opportunities. Through the grants from Society of Psychological Anthropology/Robert Lemelson Foundation, which facilitated preliminary fieldwork, I completed biweekly virtual interviews with 10 households on Jeju Island to examine how bureaucratic mechanisms that legitimate government support during the pandemic exacerbate precarity in daily life of people in South Korea.