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Displaying 7 of about 7 resultsThis guidance document presents the local government's response to COVID-19 in Korea. The measures taken are categorised under the following themes:
Innovative public health administration (pp. 2-4);
Support and management of self-quarantine (pp. 5-7);
Local economic recovery (pp. 8-10);
Transparent disclosure of information (p. 11).
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This user-friendly handbook provides an overview of several 'natural' disasters that occurred in the world in 2005, and contains good practices submitted by ADRC member countries to share knowledge among relevant stakeholders in order to contribute to global disaster risk reduction, in regard to the progression on the implementation of the Hyogo Framewo…
This research characterizes risk communication patterns by analyzing public discourse on the novel coronavirus in four Asian countries that suffered outbreaks of varying degrees of severity: South Korea, Iran, Vietnam, and India. The novel coronavirus disease (hereafter COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has cau…
This is a lessons-learned guide prepared by the Government of Korea on handling the challenges linked to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). The guides analyses the below main points:
In response to economic challenges, the Korean government focus on three areas in terms of international economic cooperation amid the pandemic.
In response to ed…
In this paper we ask to what extent these three types of learning have occurred with regard to COVID-19. That is, to what extent learning occurred as a result of past experience with pandemics, and whether countries learned from the pandemic experience of others, or from their own experience with other types of emergencies. To assess which types of gove…
While South Korea experienced sharp growth in coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) cases early in the global pandemic, it has since rapidly reduced rates of infection and now maintains low numbers of daily new cases. The high volume of testing and a low number of deaths suggests that South Korea experienced a small epidemic of infections relative to othe…
This report dissects the COVID-19 countermeasures successfully adopted in Korea. The response of the government of the Republic of Korea to COVID-19 has been heralded as among the most successful. In the first two years of the pandemic, the government was able to keep the size of the outbreak relatively small and the death toll relatively low.The Korean…