재난으로서 코로나19의 언론 속 양상과 법적 대응

The number of COVID-19 confirmed cases in Korea has exceeded 30 million. This means that 3 out of 5 people have contracted COVID-19. In the meantime, COVID-19 became a disaster by law, and the state managed it. And it appeared in the media as a ‘disaster’ comparable to natural disasters such as climate change or earthquakes. On March 11th 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the third global pandemic of COVID-19 after Hong Kong flu in 1968 and swine flu in 2009. As the corona pandemic continues, many people lose their lives and health, and they are living day by day in extreme fear and great pain in terms of psychological and economic aspects. Now, the 'living with Corona' situation is continuing in the sense of being together with COVID-19. Developing the vaccines for a disease that became a pandemic within a very short time, paradoxically shows not only the dangerousness of the COVID-19, but also the mutual cooperation and solidarity of mankind to overcome the COVID-19 pandemic. This study seeks to find and analyze the appearance of COVID-19 that is appearing in our media related to COVID-19 in this background and situation to advance a legal understanding to overcome COVID-19 intertwined with disasters. The reason why the press is used as a text is that the voices of the people can be converged and delivered through the prism of the press. It can be seen that the new diseases that appear endlessly in it have brought about a great change in the way everyone in the global village responds to disasters. Sometimes, we place a great importance on coming up with a solution to overcome a disease, rather than preventing it. And this solution includes not only the treatment and management of disease, but also the social tasks. Many editorials, articles, and columns of the media are raising a problem related to this. This implies that the issue of establishing the role of the law must be dealt with in a new transitional period. Thinking about the law should be done from a more diverse perspective. To this end, it is also meaningful to establish roles in terms of prevention and overcoming. This can act as a measure to secure the effect of the law for responding to social disasters such as COVID-19. Even though the measures could be different depending on the population or medical infrastructure of each country, what kind of response method has been selected by the government had great effects on the spread of the COVID-19 in each country. In the case of Korea, the so-called “K-Quarantine” measure achieved great results. However, in order to overcome a global problem such as COVID-19, the efforts of one country alone are not enough. In the institutional sense, it is not easy to ensure that the law responds to any one area. Therefore, it is necessary to find solutions from various aspects of looking at and dealing with the law. Promoting reproduction along with clear and realistic adherence to norms is also important for a safe society. The more social disasters such as COVID-19, the more meaningful the legal discourse on them. Therefore, in order to overcome the pandemic situation of suffering, efforts to link the law and the media must also be continued. Now we have to respond to post corona. And there is a reason to find a place of practice where the law corresponds to the reality of social value that guarantees this possibility.