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Why is South Korea beating coronavirus? Its citizens hold the state to account
Tae Hoon Kim Apr 11 opinion The Guardian
What is often overlooked, though, is that at the roots of South Koreas success against Covid-19 are a well-funded and efficient system of delivering public services. Without this baseline infrastructure, the policy of test, trace and treat could not have been sustained or expanded to the degree that it has. Likewise, effective leadership cannot achieve much if it lacks a well-oiled public service system that can deliver.
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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/apr/11/south-korea-beating-coronavirus-citizens-state-testing
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(13,599 posts)customerserviceguy
(25,183 posts)South Korea is a technologically advanced society. My Hyundai hybrid car and Samsung products attest to that. Also, they have an open society with a free press, and not the communist system that screwed us all over like in China. Also, culturally, the South Koreans are not as individualistic as Americans, and are far less to defy, or even resent a government order that was seen as being in the people's interest.
soryang
(3,299 posts)Your last point is a stereotype that simply isn't true.
customerserviceguy
(25,183 posts)I doubt they'd act like people willing to use gunfire to keep passing a virus around in a church.
soryang
(3,299 posts)so that is a major cultural difference.
Apart from the Sincheonji cult in South Korea, there have been ten other congregations that were reported to continue indoor church services against government public health recommendations. I think because of legal contraints, the churches aren't shutdown, until a confirmed transmission takes place in the church. So it is an extremely unwise practice that some worshippers are still conducting.