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Pandemic Nationalism in South Korea
As in much of the world, the Coronovirus pandemic has dominated South Korean politics in 2020. Compared to other countries, Seoul’s approach has been highly nationalist and politicized, as the ruling party lauded its pandemic response as the global standard and linked it to a larger, leftist-nationa...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7367163/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32836554 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12115-020-00509-z |
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description | As in much of the world, the Coronovirus pandemic has dominated South Korean politics in 2020. Compared to other countries, Seoul’s approach has been highly nationalist and politicized, as the ruling party lauded its pandemic response as the global standard and linked it to a larger, leftist-nationalist agenda. This “pandemic-leftist” discourse peaked around the April 15 midterm elections, but subsided the following month, as domestic and foreign setbacks arose. To explain, firstly, a competitive-nationalist race to flatten the infection curve encouraged the government to infringe on the civil liberties of infected patients, and society to stigmatize them. Other countries contained Covid-19 without such rights violations and stigma. Secondly, critics distinguished between the government’s relative success in pandemic response and its general failures in economic and foreign policies. Instead of asking other countries to learn from one’s country, each country would do well to learn from the experiences of others and to continually improve its own policies. |
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spelling | pubmed-73671632020-07-20 Pandemic Nationalism in South Korea Yi, Joseph Lee, Wondong Society Global Society As in much of the world, the Coronovirus pandemic has dominated South Korean politics in 2020. Compared to other countries, Seoul’s approach has been highly nationalist and politicized, as the ruling party lauded its pandemic response as the global standard and linked it to a larger, leftist-nationalist agenda. This “pandemic-leftist” discourse peaked around the April 15 midterm elections, but subsided the following month, as domestic and foreign setbacks arose. To explain, firstly, a competitive-nationalist race to flatten the infection curve encouraged the government to infringe on the civil liberties of infected patients, and society to stigmatize them. Other countries contained Covid-19 without such rights violations and stigma. Secondly, critics distinguished between the government’s relative success in pandemic response and its general failures in economic and foreign policies. Instead of asking other countries to learn from one’s country, each country would do well to learn from the experiences of others and to continually improve its own policies. Springer US 2020-07-17 2020 /pmc/articles/PMC7367163/ /pubmed/32836554 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12115-020-00509-z Text en © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2020 This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic. |
spellingShingle | Global Society Yi, Joseph Lee, Wondong Pandemic Nationalism in South Korea |
title | Pandemic Nationalism in South Korea |
title_full | Pandemic Nationalism in South Korea |
title_fullStr | Pandemic Nationalism in South Korea |
title_full_unstemmed | Pandemic Nationalism in South Korea |
title_short | Pandemic Nationalism in South Korea |
title_sort | pandemic nationalism in south korea |
topic | Global Society |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7367163/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32836554 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12115-020-00509-z |
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