South Korea’s Combating COVID-19 Under the Rule of Law
Seokmin Lee · intR2Dok (Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin) · 2021
OverviewThe Republic of Korea (South Korea) was one of the first countries in the world to be heavily affected by COVID-19.By early March 2020, it became the second most infected country after China.According to the data of Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KCDA) -formerly Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC) -, the first peak of the outbreak, which was mainly related to a religious group, was on 29 February 2020, reporting 909 infected in a single day.But after overcoming the initial peak, South Korea has been able to maintain new cases at around 10 cases per day in the third week of April, whereas many countries have reached ever higher number of infections.Afterwards "the second wave" has come since mid-August (the peak was on 27 August: 441 daily cases) and "the third" since mid-November (the peak was on 25 December: 1241 daily cases).But these two have been also gradually calmed down (as of early March 2021).