This document discusses issues related to surveillance and privacy in South Korea. It notes that while the country's constitution protects privacy rights, national security can curtail those rights. It also states that the three major telecom companies in South Korea collect location data. Finally, it provides statistics that over 565,000 government CCTV cameras were installed in South Korea in 2013, and that surveillance covers not just Seoul but also parts of surrounding regions.

1. Unit 2 (1) - issues

2. Surveillance & Privacy
1. True (Articles 17 & 18), but Article 37, allows for
curtailing rights “when necessary for national security,
the maintenance of law and order or for public welfare.”
2. All three – KT, SK & LG Uplus
3. Freedom House ranked Korea’s Internet and press
freedoms as partly free
4. More than 565,000 government CCTV cameras in 2013
5. True – also much of Gyeonggi-do, and parts of
Incheon, Gimhae and Yangsan
How does this information make you
feel? Why?

3.  p. 23, 1B – match the technology with the quotes
 1C – match the meanings with the phrases in 1B
 2A - Listen to five people discussing surveillance – which
types do they talk about?
 2B – Listen again and fill in the chart
Giving opinions, agreeing and disagreeing
 Look at p. 130, #2.3 – which agreeing & disagreeing
expressions are the strongest? The weakest?
 P. 23, 1D – discuss the statements in 1D – do you agree
or disagree? Why? Use the phrases from the Language
Bank