"Asked why I moved from the United States to South Korea, I often say that it was because I wanted to live in the First World. Though it began as a half joke, the coronavirus' Stateside rampage has granted it a new and discomfiting plausibility."

https://www.newyorker.com/news/dispatch/the-comforts-of-south-koreas-coronavirus-response

#ColinMarshall #CoViD19 #Korea #NewYorker

The Comforts of South Korea’s Coronavirus Response

Life in Seoul has not gone unchanged, but the government’s approach makes the American one look absurd.