Towards a New Norm / 새로운 기준을 향하여

Journal of Preventive Medicine and Public Health

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is inflicting a brutal blow on humankind, and no corner of the world has been exempted from its wrath. This study analyzes the chief control measures and the distinctive features of the responses implemented by Korea and the United States to contain COVID-19 with the goal of extracting lessons that can be applied globally. Even though both nations reported their index cases on the same day, Korea succeeded in flattening the curve, with 10 752 cases as of April 28, 2020, whereas the outbreak skyrocketed in the United States, which had more than 1 million cases at the same time. The prudent and timely execution of control strategies enabled Korea to tame the spread of the virus, whereas the United States paid a major price for its delay, although it is too early to render a conclusive verdict. Information pertaining to the number of people infected with the virus and measures instituted by the government to control the spread of COVID-19 was retrieved from the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention websites and press releases. Drawing lessons from both nations, it is evident that the resolution to the COVID-19 pandemic lies in the prudent usage of available resources, proactive strategic planning, public participation, transparency in information sharing, abiding by the regulations that are put into place, and how well the plan of action is implemented.

BMJ Global Health

his insightful feedback on the manuscript, and Taehyung Kim from the Graham Baba Architects, Seattle, USA, for his help with the figure. I am indebted to Ji-Young Park, an infectious disease nurse at the CHA Hospital, Seoul, Korea for her valuable insights on the clinical triage system for COVID-19 amid her challenging times of working as a frontline healthcare worker.

Jurnal Global & Strategis, 2020

South Korea has been hailed as one of the most successful countries in containing the spread of the novel coronavirus, COVID-19, within a relatively short period. Some argued that East Asian countries’ success could be attributed to Confucianist culture, to which I disagree. In this paper, I shall describe in details how Korean government managed to curb the Covid-19 spread with the combination of epidemiological investigation, advanced technology, and haste (빨리 빨리) culture, leading to a hurry-hurry strategy unique to South Korea. I would also outline some social impacts on LGBT-Q communities and the exclusion of foreign residents in South Korean pandemic efforts.Keywords: South Korea, COVID-19, hurry-hurry strategy.Korea Selatan dipuja sebagai salah satu negara tersukses dalam membendung penyebaran coronavirus, COVID-19, dalam waktu yang terbilang singkat. Beberapa tulisan berargumen bahwa kesuksesan negara-negara Asia Timur merupakan berkat nilai-nilai Konfusius mereka, yang tidak...

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health

This case study focuses on the epidemiological situation of the COVID-19 outbreak, its impacts and the measures South Korea undertook during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. Since the first case was confirmed on 20 January 2020, South Korea has been actively experiencing the COVID-19 outbreak. In the early stage of the pandemic, South Korea was one of the most-affected countries because of a large outbreak related to meetings of a religious movement, namely the Shincheonji Church of Jesus, in a city called Daegu and North Gyeongsang province. However, South Korea was held as a model for many other countries as it appeared to slow the spread of the outbreak with distinctive approaches and interventions. First of all, with drastic and early intervention strategies it conducted massive tracing and testing in a combination of case isolation. These measures were underpinned by transparent risk communication, civil society mobilization, improvement of accessibility and affordabili...

Journal of Eastern Europe Research in Business and Economics, 2021

This article aims to illustrate the essential changes caused by the Coronavirus pandemic in all fields of activity. The implemented measures imposed to prevent the transmission of the virus generated the alteration of the normal lifestyle for everybody. Unfortunately, there is not much chance of a 100% recovery of the world after the pandemic situation ends.

SOCIETY, 2020

As in much of the world, the Coronovirus pandemic has dominated South Korean politics in 2020. Compared to other countries, Seoul's approach has been highly nationalist and politicized, as the ruling party lauded its pandemic response as the global standard and linked it to a larger, leftist-nationalist agenda. This "pandemic-leftist" discourse peaked around the April 15 midterm elections, but subsided the following month, as domestic and foreign setbacks arose. To explain, firstly, a competitive-nationalist race to flatten the infection curve encouraged the government to infringe on the civil liberties of infected patients, and society to stigmatize them. Other countries contained Covid-19 without such rights violations and stigma. Secondly, critics distinguished between the government's relative success in pandemic response and its general failures in economic and foreign policies. Instead of asking other countries to learn from one's country, each country would do well to learn from the experiences of others and to continually improve its own policies.

THE ECONOMIC JOURNAL OF NEPAL, 2021

COVID-19 pandemic has created the greatest economic crisis since the second world war. The main objective of this article is to analyse the impact of COVID-19 in the economy of South Korea. The article also looks at the various economic packages introduced by the government of South Korea to protect the people particularly lowincome families, informal-sector employees, part-timers, women, and the disabled. The article concludes that the country's response tools and strategies in containing COVID-19 have been exemplary in the global community. The economic packages have been successful in creating jobs, boosting consumption, and promoting investment. The modality of proper and effective cooperation and coordination among the levels of government and between the public and private sector played the vital role.

How Can the South Korea Thriving the Crisis Model Can Tell Us about the Post-COVID World ?, 2021

It has been now more then one year since the first coronavirus case has been identified in the city of Wuhan in China. At that time, the all world was far away from assessing the scale of the global sanitary, economic, social and political crisis that we are facing today. The East Asian countries started to accumulate worrying numbers of positive cases since the outbreak occurred in the region. However, what was expected to be the more impacted area of the pandemic a few months later has let the place to western countries overtaken by the management of the unexpected pandemic. In almost all countries, citizens lifestyles have known rapid shifts and new habits. As the months passed, some countries were balancing-and still-between lockdowns and new policies to minimize the spreadi of the disease into public spaces and others usually crowded places. In the mean time, other countries seemed to have a large lead into the recovery race. We could have been struck by Taiwan number of cases that has never exceed 1,000 persons, the Japanese hanging out and enjoying during the spring Cherry Blossom, or weather the famous pictures of a huge summer pool party in the pandemic epicenter city, Wuhan. It is therefore undeniable that we are living a « cosmopolitan moment » because of the shared awareness that the feeling of vulnerability the pandemic raised into us. We all have been constraint to deal with one of the risks our globalized word necessarily carries on as Ulrich Beck well earlier was underlining. Therefore, many took the opportunity to denounce globalization as a cause of this current crisis. From the beginning of the outbreak, national sovereign powers has operated and protectionist responses became the norm as countries were closing their borders, governments were limiting or even prohibiting exportations of masks. More recently, we have seen the aggressiveness exercised by some countries to rapidly own a security stock of vaccins. The globalization is challenged and it seems difficult to think cosmopolitism at this time as exchanges of divers natures are limited by tougher frontiers. Lockdown has caused international imbalance and ruptures because of its impact on the decreasing big fluxes characteristic of globalisation as international commerce or tourism. However, globalization can not be reduce to economic and financial phenomena though fluxes of commodities. It is also an experiment of a shared world amid plurality of cultures which is embedded in the cosmopolitan spirit. Therefore, we should also ask about the cultural exchanges in today's world. Thanks to several measures, asian relative models of resilience and recovery can help us to have an idea and to discuss what could be the conditions of the after world. These countries, are currently reframing their societies where life is going on although the threat of the pandemic still exists. sur 1 10

Melbourne Asia Review, 2020

South Korea was one of the earliest countries impacted by COVID-19. Since its peak in late February South Korea’s efforts to curb the spread of the epidemic have been widely recognized as being highly successful, through a combination of preemptive and efficient testing of a large population, technology-enabled contact tracing, social distancing and mask wearing. By late April in 2020 when the virus was taking hold in other parts of the world, South Korea was marking single digit daily increases. Despite an outbreak at a church north of Seoul in early September, it has recorded only approximately 24,000 cases in a population of more than 50 million.