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

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Since June, an app has allowed survivors, who are overwhelmingly women, to see exactly where their stalker isOn 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 st