South Korea has tallied 39,432 confirmed COVID-19 cases and 556 deaths as of December 9. The outbreak in the country accelerated in late February because of clusters related to a "super-spreader," but came under control relatively quickly. Observers point to comprehensive testing with few restrictions and proactive tracking that alerted people of nearby cases as reasons of success, as such measures made early isolation and treatment possible. While the country managed to flatten the curve in early 2020, it has faced several waves of COVID-19 resurfacing.
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Special Dispatch | Canadian Opportunities in the South Korean New Deal (January 19, 2021)
South Korea’s New Record: More Deaths Than Births in 2020 (January 7, 2021)
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South Korea’s Third COVID-19 Wave Douses K-pop (December 11, 2020)
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COVID-19 Resurges in South Korea (August 24, 2020)
Special Dispatch | Toward a Canadian Twinning Strategy: Lessons from South Korea (August 12, 2020)
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South Korea Officially Unveils ‘Korean New Deal’ (July 15, 2020)
Special Dispatch | Women Going Global: One Canadian Entrepreneur Expanding into South Korea Despite the Pandemic (July 10, 2020)
Asia Pacific States Brace for Second Wave of COVID-19 (June 22, 2020)
Special Dispatch | Asian-inspired Contact Tracing Strategy Backed by Canadians: Poll (June 19, 2020)
Special Dispatch | Pushed to the Margin: Vulnerable Groups in the Asia Pacific During COVID-19 (June 14, 2020)
Special Dispatch | South Korea’s ‘New Deal’: An Example for Post-COVID Economic Recovery (June 3, 2020)
South Korea Goes Green with Revised Recovery Plan (June 1, 2020)
South Korean Parliament Taking Serious Look at Universal Basic Income (May 25, 2020)
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South Korea Announces ‘Korean New Deal’ to Recover from COVID-19 (May 8, 2020)
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Special Dispatch | ‘There’s an App for That’: Use of COVID-19 Apps in Singapore and South Korea (April 27, 2020)
Special Dispatch | Democracy in the Time of COVID-19: South Korea’s Legislative Election (April 23, 2020)
Special Dispatch | Schooling During a Pandemic: Lessons from China and South Korea (April 21, 2020)
South Korea First Country to Conduct COVID-19 Election (April 15, 2020)
Special Dispatch | The Story Behind South Korea’s ‘Aggressive’ COVID-19 Testing (April 7, 2020)
Multiple factors behind South Korea’s success with COVID-19 (April 3, 2020)
South Korea to move schooling online (April 1, 2020)
South Korea a global model for COVID-19 response (March 30, 2020)
Asia ramps up response to COVID-19 (March 18, 2020)
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South Korea dealing with new phase of coronavirus outbreak (February 21, 2020)
