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by NnamdiJr 4528 days ago
As a reference for anyone reading, South Korea has a population of a bit less than 50 million. 20 million credit card details stolen means that just under half of the country's population was affected..

There is something to be said about the drawbacks of living in such a small but highly networked society (esp. in S. Korea where the entire country has a particular 'small town' feel) but I do not have the energy to organize and put my thoughts to keyboard at the moment.

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I'd say nearly all the population is affected since a good portion of their population will be kids with no credit card or elderly from a generation when credit cards were not widely used.