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In South Korea, delivery drivers are dying. They call it 'kwarosa'. They call it "kwarosa" - death from overwork. South Korea's delivery workers say they are being sacrificed to keep the nation going during the pandemic.
It was after 1:00am on a Sunday morning when a text message pinged on South Korean delivery driver Lee Seong-Wook's phone. It was from a co-worker. "I'm still working," the message said.
Even at that late hour, nothing seemed out of the ordinary. After all, Seong-Wook's workmate Im Gwang-Soo had been clocking 90-hour weeks.
"We didn't pay much attention [to the message]," Lee Seong-Wook says. "But what a turn of fate. In the morning there was a phone call - he's collapsed."
Im Gwang-Soo, a 48-year-old father of two, had suffered a massive brain haemorrhage overnight and slipped into a coma. Doctors gave him a 5 per cent chance of survival.
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