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ABSTRACT
This essay is undertaken to analyze South Korea’s successful strategies in tracing promptly and dealing properly with the corona pandemic. The “K-Quarantine” model can be identified as a combined total package of state-society synergy, equipped with a series of critical factors, such as institutionalized learning effects from MERS, the government leadership inherited from Korea’s development state in the past, civic engagements with voluntary and transparent channels, high level of medical and ICT technology, and mixed accountability between coercive governance and adaptive governance. The Korean model, despite its successful achievements, can neither be exported nor imitated by the Global South, since it is uniquely home-grown within Korea’s specific contexts and domestic multi-stakeholders involved in mixed accountability.
Notes on contributors
Taekyoon Kim is a Professor of international development, and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at the Graduate School of International Studies, Seoul National University. His focus areas are international development, global social governance and international political sociology. His publications include articles in multiple prestigious journals of the field and books on topics of reflection on development theories and accountability mechanisms in Asia.
Bo Kyung Kim is a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the Graduate School of International Studies, Seoul National University. Her focus area is international development with recent publications on topics of foreign aid, accountability in international development, and global norms on sustainable development goals. Major areas of interest include international development, global governance, and diverse forms of accountability mechanisms.
Notes
1 On 28 June 2020, distancing policy terms were re-established into three levels. Level 1 refers to “Distancing in Daily Life,” Level 2 refers to “Social Distancing,” and Level 3 refers to “Intense Social Distancing.” The “Enhanced Social Distancing” has been placed in between levels 2 and 3, which is also named as Level 2.5 in practice. CDSCH (Citation2020a).
2 See CDSCH (Citation2020b, Citation2020c).
3 See CDSCH (Citation2020d).
4 See CDSCH (Citation2020e).
5 See CDSCH (Citation2020f).
6 See Ministry of Health and Welfare (Citation2020).
7 “Currently active isolation cases” are equal to “accumulated total number of confirmed cases” excluding the “total number of death and discharge cases.”
8 Korea Legislation Research Institute, “Infectious Disease Control and Prevention Act.” https://elaw.klri.re.kr/eng_service/lawView.do?hseq=40184&lang=ENG.
9 The term “civic hacking” was first created by a non-profit organization named Code for America, founded in 2009 in response to the advancement of e-Government and increased demands toward open data. Code for America defines the term as “a national event bringing together citizens, software developers, and entrepreneurs across the nation to collaboratively create, build, and invent using publicly-released data, code, and technology to solve challenges relevant to our neighborhoods, our cities, our states, and our country.” Refer to Jake Levitas, “Defining Civic Hacking.” Code for America, 7 June 2013.
12 See Joo (Citation2020); Yoon (Citation2020).
14 The preliminary version of the TRUST campaign released on 11 March 2020 stood for (1) transparency, (2) robust screening, (3) unique but universally-applicable, (4) strict control, and (5) treatment. Refer to “Korea’s Fight Against COVID-19 ‘TRUST’” (11 March 2020) at: https://www.mofa.go.kr/www/brd/m_22721/view.do?seq=4382&srchFr=&srchTo=&srchWord=&srchTp=&multi_itm_seq=0&itm_seq_1=0&itm_seq_2=0&company_cd=&company_nm=&page=3.