On the 17th, Key Economic Ministries Including the Ministry of Economy and Finance Reported... Lee Dong-hoon: "The Public's Preferred Formats Are Shifting from Text to Images, and from Images to Videos"
[Asia Economy Reporter Ryu Jeong-min] President Moon Jae-in on the 17th, during a civilian success story presentation event held after the economic ministries' work report at the Blue House, said, "I would like to especially praise Lee Dong-hoon, who created the COVID-19 related map. I thought the government should learn from him."
President Moon evaluated, "With no vaccines or treatments and a new infectious disease of unknown nature emerging from China, the entire nation was on high alert and focused all efforts on quarantine. As a result, we have responded relatively well."
President Moon pointed out, "It is regrettable that excessive fear and anxiety were inflated through some media, causing our economic and consumer sentiment to shrink drastically."
President Moon said, "Overcoming this will be a future challenge. The best way to block various false information is, after all, to make information transparent," and explained, "From the beginning until now, the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC) has continuously and transparently disclosed COVID-related information, such as confirmed patients' movement paths, contacts, and quarantine situations."
President Moon evaluated, "The government, centered on the KCDC, disclosed information transparently, but fear and anxiety spread. However, student Lee Dong-hoon showed the briefing information from the KCDC as a map, allowing people to visually see the movement paths of confirmed patients, understand our situation to some extent, how much we need to be alert, and which areas are affected, making it easy to grasp."
President Moon said, "This is a new idea in terms of how the government discloses information. The KCDC was doing its best frantically on the front lines of quarantine, so what if some government public relations department had utilized the KCDC's information from the beginning?" He added, "The government's publicity methods need a 'paradigm shift.' I especially urge this."
Lee Dong-hoon, a senior at Kyung Hee University, explained, "The cumulative views of the COVID map recently reached 14 million. As the novel coronavirus became an issue, many people were anxious," and said, "There was a lot of information on SNS and media that incited fear and agitation. To correct this, I looked for credible information and found that the KCDC had sufficiently provided data."
Lee said, "I thought, 'If this is the information, it will relieve anxiety.' The KCDC data was in text format. The public prefers formats changing from text to images, and from images to videos," and added, "I represented the text information on a map. The COVID map was possible because of data sharing. Without KCDC data, the service could not have been created."
Lee added, "In that sense, data sharing is important. National disaster situations can occur not only with this COVID but also in the future, so attention must be paid to data sharing and data communication."
Meanwhile, President Moon, listening to presentations from those working on the front lines of the innovation economy, said, "I gained confidence and a strong feeling that the prospects for innovative growth are bright."
President Moon said, "There were companies that succeeded in self-reliance of semiconductor core materials overcoming Japan's export restrictions (Lee Yong-wook, CEO of SK Materials), developed hydrogen fuel cell drones (Lee Doo-soon, CEO of Doosan Mobility Innovation), and secured original technology for autonomous driving radar (Kim Yong-hwan, CEO of Smart Radar System)," and added, "Although smaller in scale, I thank those who are practicing various innovations in many fields."
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