What South Korea did right to combat coronavirus

South Korea provides lessons the U.S. and other countries could have learned to prevent the spread of coronavirus.
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[@lifestyle7272]

South Korea is fighting the coronavirus with thorough preparation. Korean government is afraid of the Korean people. Korean government provides transparent information to the people.

[@seankanata]

Agreed

[@chopchop6878]

true

[@happylifeforever2633]

Korea=Government exist because of citizens Rest of the world=citizens exist because of government

[@GummyRiches]

Their citizens have the power to overthrow the government.

[@reinalee1518]

yeap, koreans have the power to IMPEACH the president.. thats why😏

[@ryanscube4091]

Around 80% S.Korean peoples has college degrees..can you believe that?

[@arabtrooper3929]

So basically value humans over money.

[@crystamarie4513]

Agree.

[@heeyoungyoon4351]

@Ne Ws ... Are you saying that your government has let the virus spread all over the country and let people get sick and even die in order to wreck the economy? What is your point? Your 'money' comments don't make any sense ... Please hide your stupidity for your own sake. You know what, all governments are obligated to protect the taxpayers' money and their people. It is THEIR JOB. Dude.

[@joker_season]

They opened economy. That was big risk . They screwed in the beginning costing life of peoples But they succeeded in settle down. So yeah They gambled it win at last.

[@heeyoungyoon4351]

@Ne Ws ...I understand what you are trying to say, but I have to tell you this. Trump didn't take any action 2 months ago because he didn't want to wreck the US economy by scaring the US people before his election. Everyone in the world knows that Trump values money more than anything. That's why he wants to reopen the US economy even under the most serious situation - The number of US cases will exceed 1M in a week or 2 - again, Trump values money more than anything. Korean government has set up emergency measures years ago. We are just doing everything according to our manuals. Actually most of Korean people are surprised and even shocked to see what is happening in the US and other countries around the world, especially the countries that are known as 'advanced countries' . It is not about money. Our systems are just working based on our emergency plan. If our government had valued money, they would have done the same thing as what the US and Japan did, because this pandemic started right before our parliamentary election. Our government could have hidden all the facts to win the election if they wanted to, but our government just transparently implemented all the necessary emergency measures in order to protect its people from the virus. It is simple. This is what Korean people expect from our government. This pandemic should not be about politics - it should be all about saving lives.

[@peterjohnson1698]

South Korea is the world best country throughout this outbreak among entire countries. U.S /Europe are showing how 3rd world countries they are.

[@user-kb8rh3gl1d]

I've seen you many times regarding coronavirus reactions on countries, especially about Japan, while you were blaming them on the poor gov's policy. Truly understand how you feels about this matter, but it would be much better cheering them up, just like you do in this video.

[@officerminiwheats]

They're getting what they deserve

[@user-jp6bd2jo5e]

어우 국뽕 차오른다 주모!!

[@user-kb8rh3gl1d]

저 사람 한국사람이에요.

[@user-kb8rh3gl1d]

맞습니다. 다만 저 분은 제가 지적했듯 관련 영상 (특히, 일본의 대응 관련) 여기저기에서 댓글을 남기시는데, 한국 및 일본에 대한 태도는 차치하더라도 논지가 상당히 민족주의적입니다. 외국분일 수도 있겠으나, 개인적인 의견으로는 전형적인 한국 일부 언론의 메시지와 유사하다고 느껴집니다.

[@mashitta5969]

amazing citizens and also government!

[@1thank2you3]

President Moon Jae In's Presidential slogan was "People First"

[@techo4Ugeeks]

I'm so ashamed of president Gump!! So many people are dying in vein for what?? I salute south Korea for taking charge

[@officerminiwheats]

Mr S *trump *in vain. The US is testing more than any other country

[@user-rp3nt7eh8r]

in 2018 Korean also envy US when Trump refuse muslim refugee haha.

[@luisavalos4763]

So correct. Not Trump Mr. Dumb

[@kevintran1070]

Love the first statement “to contain the spread without shutting down the economy”!!!

[@Yourmomsbestmalefriend]

A month ago at the White House: "don't wear the masks and save those for sick people and medical professionals." Three weeks after, theyve seen the progress in Korea with the masks: "wear scarfs." 😅 HA! Way to goooooo

[@moparrules53]

The US is still screwing up

[@hansouth2355]

certain key figures screwing up, caught off guard, unprepared

[@CookiesUnleashed]

true that. I live in NY. Medical staff only now are getting proper equipment.

[@christenkim5749]

Excellent government and the citizens!

[@leesunwu5025]

We are well in control of this situation without any shutdown or lockdown. But we also know that the moment we let our guard down, we can collapse. I hope everyone gets over this crisis well.

[@nbafirst9626]

다른 나라도 얼른 좋아지길 바랍니다. I hope other countries get better soon

[@hansouth2355]

wow, koreans got their sh_t together...bravo

[@user-po4fn8yo2x]

*We choose careful life than lock-down!* Finally that is right. Thanks God. Given our government.

[@sienna8297]

On 19th of April . in S. korea, the number of those diagnosed covid 19 is down to 8 nationwide .Huge thanks to medical staff and health officials and Korean people who are very cooperative and high in community spirit.

[@sb8095]

Yess!!

[@siddhunkarthik]

Good content and message. Creating a positive feelings!! 👍Keep it up

[@MissLaceyNoel]

People out parting in the states during a pandemic

[@pytack]

확진자는 대폭 줄었지만 아직 개학도 하지 못하고 있습닌다. 한국을 포함해 다른 모든 나라들이 빨리 정상적인 일상으로 돌아가길 기원합니다.

[@sohyunpark9888]

What? Discovered first case in korea & the us in a same day???

[@kimkeet]

대한민국 만세!

[@upinderkumar8189]

south korea best country

[@peninsulaking3045]

Cheers for South Korea!!!!!! so far, so good.

[@jinsho74]

us should've gone all out gangnam style From the get go.

[@whojang2000]

솔직히 요즘 너무 많은 국뽕유도 영상들이 올라와서 손발이 오그라들긴 하지만 그럼에도 불구하고 이번 코로나 대처는 적어도 대부분의 다른 나라들 보다는 살짝 나은것만은 사실인듯

[@kangdooho]

리플보면서 국뽕충전하다가 잠시 현자타임 갖고 갑니다....

[@syp3890]

ㅇㅈ 국뽕도 지나치면 독임. 적당히 자축하고,아직 경각심은 놓쳐서도 안되는거고...해결해야 할 과제들은 항상 생기기마련..

[@secretboxkevin]

00:24 ????

[@thomaslloyd6273]

We will overcome Beautiful people! Jesus love you all! John 3.16

[@JK_JK_JK_JK]

🙄 Your God Doesn't Exist! 🙄

[@thomaslloyd6273]

J K I’m living proof !😃

[@Jeremyramone]

But didn't jesus/god/ghost-bloke create ol' covid 19?

[@sb8095]

@@JK_JK_JK_JK true!!

[@sb8095]

@@thomaslloyd6273 Jesus doesn't exist.

[@chrisssy5258]

too late now

[@spamh8r1007]

I don't think we can condemn the US government by comparing it to a country that has gone through the SARS outbreak in 2003 and MERS outbreak in 2015. Clearly South Korea is well prepared and equipped from their two tragic experiences. Hopefully the US will be better prepared like South Korea should another outbreak/pandemic happens due to Chinese Communist Party's cover-ups and negligence.

[@user-ln5ms6qj7z]

크으으

[@Django1847]

people make the government

[@bluemoon8315]

대한민국 지도에 독도가 없다? ㅅㅂ

[@rosemec9359]

At 0:30 the picture of this woman is so inappropriate. She is Park Keun Hae, a previous President who is ousted by impeachment process and now in jail. Current president is Moon Jae In.

[@googleaccount4685]

Because video was explaning MERS outbreak on 2015 when Park was president.

[@csi3532]

Roseme Chang it’s because the news was talking about the previous MERS outbreak which occurred in 2015, when she was the president of SK

[@rosemec9359]

Thank you for clarifying. I played the video again and I get it now.

[@paulkim4523]

I think leadership is one of very important factors in this situation. Just 5 years ago, Korean health and safety system was terrible and most of Korean knew why. The former president Park always put her political interest prior to human right, health and safety. She didn't know how to respond against pandemic virus. Rather, she just made her effort to hide her government's lack of ability. USA was not that much vulnerable country just few years ago. But it seems like US is the most vulnerable country in the world for now. As I see, leadership is the significant difference between two periods.

[@neovivaldi]

If President Moon locked up people from China earlier and Korean people didn't have to suffering now they are going through.

[@BoRerunn]

Why didn't NY do this??? Oh yeah they were being critical about the Orange man and not their job to manage the state and it's people

[@sooncheolyoon759]

You have to do this at early stage not 2 months too late.

[@BoRerunn]

@@sooncheolyoon759 if only Dems worried less about Amazon, new abortion laws and hating Trump real decisions could of too place sooner

[@sooncheolyoon759]

@@BoRerunn Speed is the key here. US wasted 2 months. The problem starts at top. This virus won't go away in April like a seasonal flu. Oh wait. It's already April, dear president.

[@hansouth2355]

nothing wrong with being critical about an inexperienced person doing a job he is not fit to do. praise him if you think he is doing a good job during this crisis

[@BoRerunn]

@@hansouth2355 tell that to the families who don't have families and to those who lost family members because the lack of concentration on the issues

[@darthgamer6080]

During this pandemic, we are seeing the incompetence, dishonesty, and failures of governments and leaders from democratic countries, while countries with seemingly more authoritarian governments are succeeding in containing the spread of Covid-19 without needing to shut down the economy, such as South Korea, North Korea, and several African countries, while countries such as China, United States, Italy, and United Kingdom are failing. Does this sound familiar? It should because it's a near exact repeat of the failure of democratic countries during the Great Depression, where France, Britian, and the United States had peak unemployment and destroyed economies, while authoritarian countries such as the Soviet Union, Nazi Germany, Italy, and Japan were able to restore their economies and put people to work and defeat the Great Depression.

[@harathea7554]

They are well-prepared for this * South Korea has one of the highest densities of surveillance technology in the world. * South Korea had one of the world’s highest phone ownership rates (there are more phones than people). * South Korea has the highest proportion of cashless transactions in the world What I've mentioned above enabled SoKor to Test Trace Treat, to avoid panic buying, for students to study online etc. They've fought with SARS and MERS before

[@jocmarrs6070]

Newsmax

[@crystamarie4513]

It's because south Korean are more discipline and respectful to themself and others people lifes than us - American-who don't obey the law when they said: stay at home. That let us so behind the scenes. We need to take care about health of everyone. We need more companies that prioritize health. Also South Korean has better technology than us. Airlines must stop all flights to avoid others countries to get this virus, still have flights.

[@officerminiwheats]

@crysta marie koreans are not staying at home and have no outbreak

[@officerminiwheats]

@Ne Ws none of my friends are home they are all at church and hanging out

[@officerminiwheats]

@Ne Ws weird and random ad hominem but okay. Just reporting anecdotes

[@nippononna]

This is how South Korea makes its coronavirus curve flatten... kzbin.info/www/bejne/f2LCeXRjfbN_f6s

[@sb8095]

@Ne Ws Other countries aren't money minded? This virus is still havocing other countries economy and the other countries still do not care. Just goes on to show S. Korea handled the virys better.

[@myjourney1011]

Put big $$$$$$$$ to fight

[@donna9287]

I'm so proud that I can say we can handle this virus

[@dustyeyer3573]

President Moon Jae-In was totally prepared in advance, his government learned from the terrible mistakes and failures of the previous and incompetent Park Geun-hye government. He deserves the credit for leading the world in example during this difficult time. Its thanks to him and to the competency of those around him for helping MANY countries in the fight against coronavirus. This is what happens when a country has a competent president. Most other countries are failing right now because they have such terrible presidents.

[@nippononna]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/f2LCeXRjfbN_f6s

[@koyukiny]

South Korea has president Moon, who used to be a human rights lawyer whereas US has president Trump. That is why

[@vanfu4391]

moon out!

[@lnaier_better]

Why does another country deal with what China has done?

[@officerminiwheats]

-지민 because they're scared to disturb the dragon

[@redding4540]

SK shouldn't deal with China in the first place but Moon is in love with them more than US.

[@chaewonbae5358]

I am still so pissed at how the Korean government acted at the beginning (partly, the trace/track part was good). Sorry for my rough phrasing. But it's true - the government may seem to have been doing the best they can at first glance, but I live in South Korea with many of my family members who are in the medical field. There would have been no sudden surge of the virus in Daegu had the government shut down its border with China to begin with - many people were demanding that the government do this, but the government refused because of the political/economical damage it can bring to Korea - which I think was a terrible idea since public health is arguably more important. So even when the infected numbers in Korea were slowly hiking up the curve there were many Chinese tourists that still roamed our streets that could have very well been carriers of the virus. (disclaimer - I am not blaming the Chinese people as a whole because I genuinely have many positive opinions for the country but it isn't smart around this time to go traveling with the virus rampant.) Thus the sudden spike in cases began, and panic ensued. With the exponential increase of patients, the burden of taking care of the sick went solely on the medical staff. Kudos to them, because literally entire medical staffs, a lot of whom gathered to help in Daegu, the hotspot of the outbreak, have been napping away their fatigue in hospital benches and working 15 hours a day voluntarily to save our people. And numbers increased and increased, and the government still didn't close borders until it was too late and didn't matter anymore because, from their perspective, Korea was holding up well - but at the expense of the quality of life of their medical professionals, which they knew and looked away to let the burden fall on them. Think of it this way. You leave a tap open with running water. It's beginning to flood your sink a little. The logical choice is to close the tap. But figuratively, what the government did is order a servant (medical professionals) to mop up the water, and because more water has been flooding out of the sink, the servant has to mop it up faster and faster and faster, and the government, in turn, gets showered with recognition. A quick word about the medical system in Korea. It was constructed by the 8th and 9th president, Park Chung-hee (Who, ironcally, the current president tends to villainize). He put excessive effort into lowering doctor’s bills, along with other great, undeniable economic growth in the 1970s, which gave Korea the great affordable healthcare it has right now. Consequently, doctors in Korea can’t afford to accept an average of 20 patients a day because of this law, like in America. Doctors in Korea take anywhere from 50-200+ patients per day in order to compete in the medical system. So a major part of why we have passed our peak so “easily” is simply because our doctors and nurses are so conditioned to overwork themselves. Have you seen that in the news anywhere? It’s sad.

[@essekor5549]

검으머리 외국인은 흑형을 좋아할것같다

[@bariforever3611]

The only thing South Korean government doesn't listen to expert: Medical staffs "We are exhausted. There are only limited amounts of medical supplies. We should close borders." Government "No, closing the border doesn't matter." People "Tell the truth. If you are true, why does tens of countries lock down their borders?" Government "Actually, we need to win the election in April 15th."

[@user-kb8rh3gl1d]

Well, I'm the one who's not on the government's side, but still I can understand why we should keep the borders open. We are currently at the point of nation-wide economic catastropy besides of the virus. And sadly, Korea has been drastically dependent on trade, which needs the gate open. It's a good point you mentioned about doctor's fatigue dealing with the virus, and this kind of sacrifice has somewhat been forced by the authorities and ppl. What we must remember is that this curve has been made by the great effort of them, and we gotta treat tham in a right way.

[@user-xr3ix9bw7p]

Look at the Countries who shut down borders. Are they virus-clean and safe now? No. Even if SK government only think about the victory of election as you mentioned, SK should have act like governments of JAPAN or US. However, SK's have not done such way. SK react quickly and to right way.

[@going_well4577]

Korea can't be like China. They want try to without lock down closing border resolve this situations cause lock down closing border dosen't mean any.

[@bariforever3611]

@@user-xr3ix9bw7p What about Taiwan and Hongkong? Especially Hongkong even banned entry from the mainland...

[@user-xr3ix9bw7p]

@@bariforever3611 They are not virus-clean. They are not safe. Neither SK is. The shutdown could not be a solution for pandemic. Corona 19 is pandemic not epidemic. The last pandemic, Spanish flu shows us that there is no safe place in pandemic. As you know, HK, TW are Asian hub of financing and manufacturing respectively. How long is it possible to close the entire border?