better than any other wealthy country during the pandemic’s early months. It was about twice as effective as the U.S. and U.K. at preventing infected individuals from spreading the disease to others, according to a recent report from a United Nations-affiliated research network. South Korea’s economy is expected to decline by just 0.
8% this year, the best among the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development’s forecasts for member nations.centralized controlThe nation fast-tracked approval of domestic testing kits as soon as cases began hitting. It tapped into its relative wealth and hyperconnectivity, blasting text alerts to citizens if infections occurred in their area. When the supply of face masks ran short early on in the crisis, the government seized production.
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they did not vote for emmanuel macron !!!
Trump cracked the code to beating it, in 72 hours. Winning!
Having a leader that respects science and scientists is on the top line of the code.
They were already set up for a SARs since they had one several years ago that hit them. So don't be giving them a lot of praise for doing it better than we did. They were already ready and we never had the previous SARS outbreak. It just disappeared.
Yes, easy. Just have Americans be as skinny as Koreans. We can achieve that in no time.
I would say Taiwan is the best on process of China virus. Other countries especially the U.S. should learn from Taiwan
read somewhere that they had followed obama's pandemic playbook. don't know how true that is. it was a good plan, kept ebola at bay.
51 million vs 328 million population may have something to do with it
Wearing masks in Asia is a common practice, even during non sickness times. Not common in North America.
What this really came down to was the government 'had unfettered' access to everyone's phones, gps & private information.
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They also have more long term immunity from the 2003 SARS outbreak.
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Or..... it could be that they are naturally more immune to covid 19 due to more exposure to past coronaviruses.
Hi. I see you wrote 'South Korea' but did you know that Koreans don't really like it when you specify 'South' when it's not totally necessary to what you're saying? It's a painful and unwelcome reminder of our divided country. Please consider this in the future. 감사합니다!
Great job by Korea - unfortunate that fordnation is stopping walk in testing and giving up on tracing.
So 1) Immediate response 2) Universal mask wearing 3) Frequent temp checks 4) Massive and widespread testing. Invest in quick solutions, prioritize saving lives, and leverage technology. Got it. Sounds a lot like a pandemic plan that we used it to have...
Here’s the secret: Make sure your entire population is Korean and not obese American. Saved you a read
How wild...relying on science and experts. Wish we could have done that in the states. We opted to suffer 4 years instead of 4 months. 😳
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Look at india, its worst :(
Have trusting and caring authorities in government. And believe in science, not conspiracies. Didn't have to even pay for the to access this story. CommonSense
Any systems of governance by state to subjects,their common aim: aggregate welfare/happiness maximisation.east and west differ only in means to ends. Common characteristic of differing representative philosophies of Aristotle and confusius, both advocate middle path as best fit!?
And look at all those people in the picture. They’re all wearing masks.
And Sweden?
Could it also be because they only have 4% of their population that is considered obese?
And South Korea also required that its people accept what was good for the nation as a whole. Too bad America is full of selfish pigs -- who scream about individual freedoms, when they're just too weak to support anyone besides themselves.
AND MASKS- THEY WEAR MASKS.
Why did we trust CDC and Fauci? 'When all this is over, we may well find that the biggest international variable isn’t the number of preventable deaths. It is the damage to the living.'
You have no idea.
South Korea's 'success' is only deferral. Everyone will get COVID-19 unless they are vaccinated (which is really just controlled exposure to develop antibodies without getting sick).
And the key to Taiwan and Japan’s success appears to be doing practically no testing at all? Testing is key? Not clear. Maybe South Korea would have faired as well without massive testing.
I can relate to last sentence
Also important to note that the Koreans are far more disciplined and have trust in their government unlike Americans they do whatever they want and ignore safety guidelines.
FaheemYounus Population count is also matters
'Its solution is straightforward, flexible and relatively easy to replicate.' No, it may be easy to replicate from a technical standpoint, but definitely not from a cultural/political one. Try convicing Americans to hand over personal data to fight their ''hoax''.
Masked up and on their phones = completely controlled
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1. probably mask. sk koreans are used to wear mask because of yellow dust from china. 2. more hygienic and clean 3. less physical interactions.
How about the situation in China? Any analysis to the success in controlling the pandemic of Chinese government?
The key to US's failure against the coronavirus came from Donald Trump and his administration.
I feel like I am living in a commie nation. They collect personal information. where you have been or so. Korean telecommunication companies provide such information to the government. What is successful here?
NO SURPRISE AT ALL. Expected this kind of advertisement using medias would be coming soon. The key to success is probably playing with numbers. For example, before huge protest, test more people to make people scared. Makes sense?
Omg such lies and bullshit. I'm literally in South Korea and they are a dictatorship monitoring your every move and come to your home with the police if you don't check in on time to their system. People here are having sucides left and right.
This is happening at Gwanghwamun square. Do you think it is necessary to ban protest?
And the people had no problem with wearing a mask 😷
And they wore masks.
Its citizens are respectful of one another's health and wear masks. Too many in this country care more about individual rights and being inconvenienced than the health of others.
But see South Korea is a developed first world country while racists hillbillies and uneducated hicks have turned America into worse-than-third-world country where half of the f*cking government has tested positive for COVID-19. Go figure.
the figures show that the commie virus seems to target korean conservatives and churches. so do you think it's successful?
“Constant fear” I’ll pass.
Smaller containment area
the figures show that the commie virus seems to target korean conservatives and churches.
There are also internal enemies trying to somehow neutralize quarantine.😡😡🤬
Yea but that means nothing without a culture that values discipline
'centralized control' no thanks. That sounds like a dictatorship.
Hi. I see you wrote 'South Korea' but did you know that Koreans don't really like it when you specify 'South' when it's not totally necessary to what you're saying? It's a painful and unwelcome reminder of our divided country. Please consider this in the future. 감사합니다!
No Karens in SK
real national exceptionalism. they don't brag about it from their couch watching the telly. they just do it.
Wrong. It's now pretty clear East Asians have more robust immunity against this virus. Follow the data, not political narratives.
As long as you allude to S Korea’s homogeneity - they’re effectively made up of 6 maternal families - and their absolute rejection of immigration, people won’t take this article seriously
Because everyone wears mask.
There are now more recorded cases of Covid-19 in the White House than in New Zealand, Taiwan and Vietnam combined
it came from them being an island that could easily shut off travel ... and they'll be paying other prices for that for years
good
True patriotism. Not like the whiney MAGA cult and their boat parades and tantrums.
'The key to South Korea’s success came from blending technology and testing like no other country, centralized control..' This is the goal! Surveillance surveillance surveillance! Well, you know what? You gotta struggle a lot more in the west!
Did you just figure that out ? After six months and 200,000 dead. And you had to get the simple solution from S. Korea ? We are f’ed
No
Someone please tell these people they are about to be run over by a runaway bus.
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'But my FREEDOM!'
Simple: have a healthy populace with low rates of obesity, heart disease, diabetes, and high blood pressure. Same story in Japan.
Real virus, fake pandemic.
A virtual mtg with researchers from the deep south yeongnam city over its recent outbreak. Recco was effort on both business safety and customers self protection. It's war. SK folks are kind of 'stubborn' but NCoV not go away any soon in SK. Discipline is the key to move on.
You have to want to manage the pandemic first. The president your paper endorsed has presided over the deaths of 200,000 as he downplays and lies about Covid.
Compliant population
The biggest failure of USA managing this pandemic is too much politics injected into it! We are doomed if we continue allowing partisanship dominating the government. How could we possible won another WWII?
Here’s how you manage Covid. Open up, live your life, and everything will be fine.
I wonder why and you ?
On Korea especially, you keep hearing contradictory reports. They're doing bad, surge problems, they're doing great, wonderful example. Blah blah. No wonder everybody is confused. Here in Hawaii, we just cut the number of active cases by 75% because of data base issues.
Easy? What did they do with all their stupid people?
just wear your god damn masks america!
Hi. I see you wrote 'South Korea' but did you know that Koreans don't really like it when you specify 'South' when it's not totally necessary to what you're saying? It's a painful and unwelcome reminder of our divided country. Please consider this in the future. 감사합니다!
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yeah no not here in america land of conspiracy theorists lol
It's also more with disciplines and social behaviour of each countries, I reckon. Density of population and testing quickness
mikebutcher World wide cough test. Perform a steam inhalation test. Boil salt + water and inhale the steam. Call a number on the phone. Put on the speaker on the phone. The cough pattern that you then have while inhaling steam is for fighting the pandemic. Get a machine learning result. /Per
Hint... They WearAMask everywhere they go. Same as in Africa and people are wondering why they're doing so well. Check our take on masks here
Yes, yes, yes and all for a virus that has over a 99% survival rate.
The code is: be 100% Korean.
Apparently the best from the article that we don’t need or want to eradicate the virus but modifying our behavior can get us back to life. No wonder why they have fought with the best solutions to average the no.of cases to 77. A lot to be learnt from them.
thomaskaine5 Lets have it.
You kinda suck for not making Covid stories free
Still, it's part of the East Asian culture of collectivism. Will everyone in US cooperate with the government should we adopt what the South Korea, Taiwan, Singapore, or China is now doing on controlling covid? I don't see that happening.
And we..... suck
Would be nice if our response was like this. Like the article stated, SK govt had a “fear of failure”. The Trump admin doesn’t give an American fuck.
UROCKlive1 I think that South Korea taking the Virus Serious with Early National Testing/Contract Testing & Quarantining those who tested positive in Hospitals, Not sending people home, along with Masks & Social Distancing was the “Code” & still is the Key for managing COVID-19!
Too difficult for the USA
UROCKlive1 That’s a great little country. We should be a better ally.
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wretchardthecat I suspect the 'code for managing COVID-19' is having previously had lots of exposure to other coronaviruses.
Don’t need that in US.
wretchardthecat yes...south korea...that world famous liberal democracy known for liberty, rights and shit like that.
Solution for covid: having a small island with a population of 100% south koreans. TOO BAD WE CANNOT REPLICATE IT ELSEWHERE
If by 'cracking the code' you mean trampling on our CivilLiberties. America is HUGE in size vs. South Korea? Also we have a system of checksandbalances to ensure political stability. Just because the glove fits on South Korea doesn't mean it'll fit the same for America!
And because of this, they will not have the horrible economy we Americans are going to have in t-minus 3...2...1...
You should worry about this...
One things for certain, the solution to Covid sure as hell is not going to come from a WSJ article.
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The only thing they really did different.. They never shut down..
Discipline makes a nation great. I firmly believe.
Trump supporters seeing this
Uhhh have you been to Florida? Light years away from normal, thinking society
“Relatively easy to replicate” and “Government Seized Control” are two mutually exclusive statements for most “Free” Democratic Republics or Democracies.
We had a similar plan in place -- until Trump disbanded the pandemic task force in 2018 and threw way their plans. We could have been like South Korea -- if we didn't elect a moron as our president.
Wayyyyyyyyy different culture and laws.
Noahpinion We watch her every day. She tells the truth. She has compassion. no politics.
Look at all those obese women - BMI must be in upper 30s / low 40s 🤣
You mean an idiot opposed to testing, opposed to mask wearing, an idiot who found some radiologist from Stanford to endorse a strategy of 'doing nothing', Herd immunity, of acting like the disease didn't exist, like we are in the stone age. That idiot won't pay any attention.
Noahpinion On Jan22 I left china and went back home to Seoul. watching my adopted country battle this virus has inspiring. Transparency has been a huge help. and NO political wars. refreshing
yashar Americans wont do it because the cult mentality going on here at the moment makes them a bunch of idiots that wont listen to reason
1) Have a healthy population. 2) Don’t have a massive population of people suffering from health complications brought on by decades of obesity
Actually Sweden cracked the code
Yes, they only count covid deaths when covid actually killed them, not when they were infected with covid when they died.
yashar for all the world EXCEPT the USA
martinvars Lo ya sabido, que no se quizo hacer en España y demás por la protección de datos
MrJonCryer Not funny. Not a single U.S. politician has enough public trust to put this into play. People wearing a mask and washing their hands is already too tough.
The protagonists of plan to ward off China Virus are doctors and nurses in S. Korea.
Quite the 'scientists' WSJ. By your definition, Cambodia'cracked the code' too. Fools
Looks like all we need to save the world is a WSJ subscription
We couldn’t make masks or swabs. Ergo 200,000 of us are dead.
Lessons is that they all consider the other South Korean and equals, not a 'N-word,' 'S-word,' 'K-word,' 'C-word,' etc. A majority does not consider itself to have 'good genes' or to be better than another group. Their highest leader isn't spewing division, hatred, and racism.
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Wsj is wrong. The reason Asian people has few cases is because Chinese communist made the virus to affect the all people different from Asian. The western intelligence agencies are very dumb if they have not seen this.
What treatment protocols used for infected patients? That would be helpful information. Masks are great but can’t stop everything. Also, they didn’t send infected patients back to nursing homes. Very helpful.
Covid-19 policy should be evaluated based on the amount of liberty and pursuit of happiness the people have. The more liberty, the better the policy.
They also use hydroxychloroquine to treat COVID-19. Are you going to talk about that?
You stupid stupid people there was no code to crack; unlike ours, their PM speaks truth, people believe science wear mask and social distance. Only here education is so low this becomes a headline in WSJ....
Here in VN now is much better
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First of all, don't be filthy slobs. Take off your shoes inside the house.
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If only Americans were that smart.
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futurepundit The solution: Be Korean.
China also managed it successfully, learn from it
Question.... If our president can't pronounce his own name consistently, how can you expect him to follow any pandemic approach regardless of 'ease'?
yashar Lesson 1. Don’t elect a destructive moron to lead your country.
MrJonCryer Yeah, because they have fewer people and politicians there who whine, 'But it's mah freedumb not to wear a mask!'
They wear masks. We can’t get the selfish people of this country to do the bare minimum.
It would be easy for a country with a functioning national government, maybe, so that lets us out.
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The US doesn’t make PPE, when this started, Asia countries were the only ones that had the ability to stop it early. Stop outsourcing everything out. The US needs to wake up and realize they can’t cover the basics anymore. No longer making PPE and hospital drugs.
Yeah the system is easy to replicate: make common sense mask and isolation measure. Stick the hell to it. Don't elect absolute morons as presidents and educate people so that they trust and listen to gov dire tives and not freaking social media 'influencers'
MrJonCryer Yep! Wear a fucking mask!
Not so bad, but we think Vietnam, Thailand and Malaysia did better. Corroborated by a health publication recently.
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morgfair There is nothing 'easy to replicate' about a plan that was successful in a society that is 99% homogeneous and has a citizens-trust-their-government index that's above something like 80 percent.
We embrace failure, they fear failure
I know how to save lives from Covid... Take people out of Nursing Homes.
yashar They wear masks to protect others as they are not selfish like the US
yashar But first their leaders have to admit covidd exists.
yashar Their govt acted when there was a mask shortage, yet ours still hasn’t enacted the DPA &turned down the USPS offer to send them to every citizen.Our hcw still don’t have enough ppe & their economy is going to bounce back much quicker. Wow. What a surprise. Competence and honesty
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Sweden cracked it from the beginning..
🤣🤣. We will be locked back down after the Chuseok holiday. When every Korean is out. Not all Koreans are wearing masks. Don’t let the media fool you. Their bars are still open. Their restaurants are still open....
yashar Except in the US
Not when we have a president and other conservative leadership that continue to play down the virus and refuse to believe in science or its experts. Without that, its impossible to replicate.
Too bad the person opinion wants re-elected thinks it’ll all just go away one day.
Why not Sweden. Sounds even easier.
Yeah, wear a mask. It’s simple
Their people listen to their government, plain and simple. They do no mistrust their own government. Americans do not trust almost anyone, particularly government.
yashar Wear the f*cking mask.
First, have a small country that is all Korean...
Taiwanese carry out daily routines without the need to wear masks except when taking public transports and in a large crowd. The idea in the article is good 'You don’t need or want to eradicate the virus. But you modify your behavior and get on with life'. No Complete Lockdowns!
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I cracked it in January, just wearing a mask and taking hydroxychloroquine to prevent CCP Virus.
Oh look they are all wearing masks...
The USA is uneducable. So hard pass.
Taiwan has a full system developed to manage COVID since Jan🙄
Not having 40 percent of the country in a brainless MAGA death cult is a big first step.
This might not be the best example, just better than US.
What is it?
Wouldn’t have anything to do with being a far healthier country overall? The US is terribly obese and generally unhealthy, combined with a relatively poor healthcare coverage system. That doesn’t suggest a failure to respond to the crisis.
All USA misclassifications - not COVID-19 deaths in US
2016 CIA ranked all 192 countries in the world by their obesity rates. 12 USA 97 Sweden 184 South Korea 187 Japan 1 Nauru 2 Cook Islands 3 Palau 4 Marshall Islands 5 Tuvalu 6 Niue 7 Tonga 8 Samoa 9 Kiribati 10 Micronesia 11 Kuwait fat americans are the problem
The main lesson here is Don't elect a belligerent fool.
South Korea has 1/7 of USA’s population.
South Korea has averaged about 77 new Covid-19 cases a day since April, a fraction of the U.S. Here’s how they did it. Showing the real data? Telling the truth?
Hi. I see you wrote 'South Korea' but did you know that Koreans don't really like it when you specify 'South' when it's not totally necessary to what you're saying? It's a painful and unwelcome reminder of our divided country. Please consider this in the future. 감사합니다!
Look at all N 95 masks.
From what I noticed all highly developed countries has been devastated by war. So can Russia or something come invade us.
Just won’t happen in US
1. Didn't have a sociopath moron as president. ....
You are not a medical journal. Please report news - and not FAKENEWS.
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Doesn’t apply to third world countries like America whose education level is far below that of other countries
3 reasons why we suck. 1. Stupidity 2. Whining bitches 3. selfishness. Oh let me add one more... entitlement.
It’s written on their faces.
The secret of success of its northern sibbling is killing the covid victim before any spread. NK just shot death a south korean fishing official and cremated his body. NK said it won't allow covid invasion from the southern border. Kim j un has sent his apology to the South.
Fines have been imposed in South Korea🤔
RogerPielkeJr Sweeden?
All i see is poeple complain about open gyms,bars..look at florida today open bars unbelievable..just plain STUPID!!!
I remember we americans were united in hard times like 911 but now is a shame what we have become.we are a joke to other countries,others wanted to be like us Putin is lovin it he has his puppet in the white house doin his dirty work.soon we will have our own dictator.
its called not being fat
Secret is there are no libtards in South Korea
Hi. I see you wrote 'South Korea' but did you know that Koreans don't really like it when you specify 'South' when it's not totally necessary to what you're saying? It's a painful and unwelcome reminder of our divided country. Please consider this in the future. 감사합니다!
One more thing: South Koreans act as “one nation” when the country goes through hardships like these.
People wore they’re damn masks
Respect
Without “punishing” lockdowns? 🙄
And in the US a total of 7 million people have been infected, I million MORE than just 25 days ago! And 201, 000 Americans dead. The key to South Korea's success is that its president stuck to the science. He did not contradict the nation's top doctors & scientists,
So did Sweden.
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Masks.
Yes, and in North Korea they simply shoot and burn the infected.
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