True (I'm South Korean too👋)

Unfortunately this is certainly not the case for the Chinese it seems

And some countries laughed at Korea.

No, its not overreacting, its simply preparing for the worst case scenario that happened before, therefore, your country now become a trusted role model to handle this pandemic 🤔

Here in Hong Kong, we did the same, for 2 reasons. First, we lived through the 2003 SARS outbreak. Secondly, we have an incompetent government that won't close the border with Mainland China or implement aggressive testing. So we took matters on our hands and take protective measures.

Remember when some americans descriminated asians for wearing or not wearing masks in public?

No?

@@user-ec3ty5rx3e why it always gotta be Americans, literally the whole world does/did that.

@@pepe-wk5gv so the chinese cant wear mask then ?

But Asians including Koreans shouldn't discriminate Western people on the grounds that they are the centre of worldwide spreading. Because we don't have to behave like racists. Now Asian people realized that Western people aren't more sophisticated or smarter than Asians thanks to this phenomenon.

Same here in Brazil, at least 'muricans are testing alot, here ppl are doing parties.

That's American mentality for you.

@@GabrielKlock can't help it when their own president is 'partying' as well

Are you sure? I didn't know because I'm Korean.

@@Angelina-je7rm Why do you think, in Korea, contact tracing is much better than in the US?

and are the confirmed cases way waaaaay less than the true number of cases?

@@wasddsaw2726 whats ur point?

@@_judy._.k_ they didn't have one

Yes That's true , Don't Look just at the shape of Curves or number of cases , You must also take into account the numbers of tests done . In my country we are doing around 500 tests a Day . you can't find 1000 infected people in a single day because you can only do 500 , but thank god we had responsible government . they did all they could despite the bad economical situation in the country even before the corona

Not just early testing but tracing is very important

Boxing Bro How do you know personally identifiable information is even stored?

Boxing Bro Most countries have laws that violate privacy to some degree, for example in US the patriot act and Europe bc of terrorism. Not giving up this much of your right seems absurd to me in a situation like this. Don’t you give more personal information to facebook? Oh the irony.

I feel like a lot of people are forgetting about the Patriot Act which is WAY WAY worse...

That's great but with the nifty computers we have and other sources of info, I'm pretty sure that anonymity can be pierced. I don't worry for the case where a pandemic eventually ends. But what if it never does? As much as I support it as a way of getting out from under a pandemic, I worry that which seemed reasonable in the short term becomes bad in the long term. It'll be a hard sell in the US. I wonder if we've been fooling ourselves thinking the Spanish Flu is a marker of how infrequent pandemics are. Perhaps as earth's climate changes, diseases will mutate faster. Maybe this won't be the last pandemic for the next 100 years, we'll get a different pandemic ten years from now; 2 years from now; overlapping pandemics. It's paralyzing to ponder. We'll just have to keep up with the problems as they come - be it fast or sneaky slow erosion of rights.

Suuuurrreee. Just like the Patriot Act is only used to track terrorists

You can only test at that scale if you prepare hospitals with tests, most other countries were simply not prepared testing wise and simply could not afford to test everyone symptom or no symptom.

@@victorhinojos3050 Well maybe they should, you know... Give hospitals the tools they need to perform their jobs.

Octavia Smith that s why we are dying, in the US we need to have all of the symptoms before we get tested; by then half of our lungs are already infected. And they put us in a ventilation for 10 days, as result the hospitals are overwhelmed by patients. If they admit us at the hospital at the earlier stage of the virus, people will spend less time at the hospital and more people will save. 😒

@@victorhinojos3050 Tests don't need to be conducted only at hospitals as the video shows. Besides, only patients with severe symptoms need to be hospitalized; The remainder can be quarantined at other facilities while being monitored.

Another key words: Small country surface.

While in US, the slow internet causes delays and freezes every few minutes during a lesson....sigh...

ONE WORLD SCHOOL DISTRICT??? IT MAY BE TOO SOON TO TELL ... but where is this "DISTANCE LEARNING" going to take us? Will it become the END of PUBLIC SCHOOLS as we know it? Will it be the END of LOCAL school boards? Will it be the END of TEACHERS UNIONS? Will this be an END to PARENTS INVOLVEMENT in their LOCAL school district? Will this become the push to PRIVATIZE THE PUBLIC EDUCATION SYSTEM? TRUMP, in his STATE OF THE UNION ADDRESS, he even PRAISED the PRIVATE SCHOOL SYSTEM ... as to suggest it's so much better over the PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM. Like the UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE ... "BIG BUSINESS" wants to PRIVATIZE the postal service (a GOVERNMENT SERVICE that's REQUIRED by our U.S. Constitution) and what's stopping them from going after the PUBLIC SCHOOLS! It's BIG MONEY in their pockets if they PRIVATIZE public education!! Right now ... the major INTERNET PROVIDERS are already receiving BIG BUCKS to provide INTERNET SERVICES to EVERY HOME in the nation to bring "DISTANCE LEARNING" to fruition. Services like "Google Classroom" and others will benefit from the funding they will receive to bring this "new school system" online. DO YOU THINK THAT THESE SERVICES WILL WANT TO GIVE UP ALL OF THAT NEW MONEY THEY NOW HAVE COMING THEIR WAY ... we can't forget about PROFITS for those STOCKHOLDERS, you know. And, will parents still receive the INTERNET CONNECTION for FREE ... or will you PAY FOR IT later down the road??? IMAGINE ... LOCAL SCHOOLS and LOCAL SCHOOL BOARDS are now gone for good! And, who says all TEACHERS will get to keep their JOBS! Teachers can be REPLACED by VIRTUAL IMAGES on a computer screen that will now present the lesson ... or even replaced by teachers from other countries where labor costs less. If the student has a QUESTION ... all they have to do is open up a CHAT session and the help they need for their studies will now come from an educator from another country. BIG BUSINESS will want to MAXIMIZE PROFITS and will need to KEEP OVERHEAD LOW so they may choose automation and other ways to INCREASE PROFITS. NOW, it may become that neither PARENTS or SCHOOL BOARDS will have a say as to WHAT EDUCATION your child will be taught! Mind you, there might be some "PLUS and MINUS" to this whole DISTANCE LEARNING thing ... but you can BET that it's going to be all about MONEY and CONTROL!! Are you willing to GIVE AWAY LOCAL CONTROL of your schools ... you are doing it now with local shopping as you avoid shopping main street and buy more and more ONLINE! We already see more and more retailers becoming CENTRALIZED on the INTERNET. I hope PARENTS, TEACHERS, and SCHOOL BOARDS are KEEPING AN EYE on this whole DISTANCE LEARNING matter. The fate of your child's education is here at hand.

wow I didnt know that my country is the only one country among the entire world. Actually it is the first attempt in S.Korea, so there was also some problems on the first day. And Korean are watching a change now. Thank you for your interest in my country. I hope whole world will overcome Covid 19 as soon as possible.

Huawei is velly happy....will send panda to South Korea soon

@@primadonna82 slow wifi speeds aren't the fault of the government or anyone else. You get what you pay for

Vote wisely. Why always liberal democratic party. Change your prime minister

Japanese people are smart, but we know one person who is not. When the time comes to make a decision, that is when you can make Japan better. We remember Gongzi taught us about rectification of names (正名); the king must act as a "king" should act.

Thank you

Not two masks for one person, but two "fabric" masks for one "household"

Take care of yourself😀 🇯🇵 from. korea🇰🇷

Its like the Spanish Flu

@@namename-mz1je well, key difference is the Spanish flue killed %30, while sars is 10% and covid-19 is like 1%

Entire Twix Actually the death rate for COVID-19 is 6%. Divide the number of deaths by the number of confirmed cases.

@@brendantodt5043 well not exactly the problem is many people never show symptoms so the death rate is lover but we can't know how much exactly. There was an estimate of 1,4% but that's just the best guess and depends on country to country because the worse the healthcare system the higher the death rate.

No...Today, in medical school it is already studied in its community health course...

MASKS

OK koreaboo

@@harisu8247 i mean.. They atill right tho

@@harisu8247 U mind to shut up? The person just spitting fats right there and here you are

All they had to do was give up their fundamental human rights!

Not with this clown as a president

And I wish president Trump could, too.

Wish Americans would stop denying that they are doing a bad job

@@velcranoxofficials9970 bruh where r u from

If people who freaking riot for 'freedom' stop jesus

Not only test...no matter how long stay hospitalize in ICU, all cost paying by National health insurance.

free for people with referrals/came into contact with positive cases (its like 100,000W if you want to be tested for your own sake).. which is the same in the US. That's not what saved Korea. It was the tracing and basically following every step you take. Not many other countries can do that

its the same in sweden but they dont offer you tests, only after 3 weeks of feeling sick they offer you to come, stay 3 days then only afterwords test you, wait 1 day and then let decide if ur sick or not. *just another thing > we dont have quarantine, the goverment even wants to inccurage people to go out, they even made parks free just for that reason, same goes for busses and some trains too.

No, from what I heard the tests are not free. You still have to pay the test, but if you are COVID-19 positive you get your money back. I assume that prevents hypochondriac and frequent testing blocking it for other people with actual symptoms.

d1oftwins it’s free for the test for everyone even visiting Korea. Then they divide the patient 4 group by symptoms. If you’re really serious or need medical care. it will be covered by national medi care system which you need to pay some portion of the cost. It’s not much though.

yeahh lol hi guys! all the best for your research

Prolly somebody's master's project

mathur aadir you got no school where you are!

yeah guys i lived through this you can message me for an interview lol

Yes! I'm apart of history, get your grades this is a primary source!

*flatten, not flattened yet. They will move quickly again if another corona wave comes through

ElevatorMan5482 ElevExperiencing Productions yeah, thanks for correcting 🙏

bruh HAHAHAH

Lol

already doing one :(

hi future its me

Kids today***

Unfortunatley, the Us has dubbed the mistrust of China as a 6 letter word that starts with R and ends with Ist. This has led us to repeat the mistake of trusting China's numbers. The citizens of South Korea are certainly smarter than the most of us.

Ryan Rodrigues that’s 100% facts bro💯 meanwhile the U.S is way far behind, it’s really embarrassing man

taiwan too

Tim Evans yeah we have a bunch of millions of them Americans that be acting like that🤦🏾‍♂️ it’s just super embarrassing man🤦🏾‍♂️

@Tim Evans Thank you comrade, for glorious revolutionary Party Approved Correct Thinking and Speech.

If you are Korean Alexander Uribe...which i doubt. Korea has one race and i'll let you guess what that is

@@kjohn0347 and they have no sense of privacy they track everything you do

@@aisstunna2999 How? And can you give us one great example of EVERYTHING? I think you mistook the country for China which no one can say any bad things about Xi Jinping online?

Malaysia is the best!

​@@aisstunna2999 Also, tracking PATIENTS (not spying on everything, but just motion path!) was allowed temporarily by installing an App on their smartphones for this pandemic. They can all remove the app after they get healed. Patients agree for the public, and while patients stay at home, they get food and stuff for free. When you are seeing this just as a privacy problem, they are actually taking care of each other.

That's why you have lived a completely wrong life. only now feel proud for the first time in your life ? ?? while all those wonderful world No 1 blessings such as the safest country in the world, most convenient, and affordable transportion in the world, cleanest and least noisy environment, etc etc. I feel ashamed of people like you ungrateful......

@@peterk3863 Whatever i think about my country,it is my freedom. Don't try to judge my thoughts and my life. That's why u have lived a completely wrong life.

Why are you proud to be a Korean now? You should've been proud from the beginning. As a Korean myself, I believe every Korean should be extremely proud of Korea and her accomplishments.

True!!

This is Asians and their collective culture. In the Western world, they tend to be and value individualistic mindsets. Eg. all the recent protests in America about ending the lockdown and how it “infringes on their rights”. As a result, it will really put a strain on the healthcare workers and ironically, prolong the fight against Covid and an economic downturn.

I'm glad to see Boris Johnson contracting the virus. Maybe he'll start to take this pandemic seriously and finally do something good for the people

Geoff Bannister There are value reasons for the lack of trust in the government in the U.K. South Korea is nationalist and homogenous country, whilst the native people are being actively replaced in the U.K. - there is no unity here.

@@Miquelalalaa the people lost trust in the government during the first week of outbreak because it hadn't closed its doors on China as per medical experts advice. It quickly regain trust from the public within a week as it was consistently being transparent on the measured taken and the numbers of infected. Homogeneity and culture didn't have much to do with it

@@ckcl78 Homogeneity and culture are always present in the background. I never said that it was a direct factor, but it ensures that public action and public response is efficient and orderly, and it forces the government to act as the unity of the people means that if they fail, they lose the confidence of an entire people.

Bede As a skorean who used to study in uk, i agree with you on some points. What id like to clarify is the fact there are certain numbers of “foreigners” from all over the world in skorea as well and skorean government has been offering free tests even to illegal immigrants not just to tourists or residents from other ethnical backgrounds, which is for the south korean citizens safety. Also skorea is a Confucianist country. It means skoreans society tends to love hierarchy and Confucianism places emphasis on each ones’ role and responsibilities. Confucianism is based on collectivism. So skoreans success on flatting curve isnt merely because of its homogeneity. From my observation i felt there are many ethnicities in uk mainly because of uk’s imperialistic aspect. But as far as i remember, there are many civil activities for community which i have warm memories. As you said it cannot be the same as relatively homogeneous&confusionist society but i do believe uk can manage your own version. Everything has pros and cons, right? I felt the diversity of ethnicity made your country more interesting. I guess its kinda homework for uk after this pandemic to sort out how to make people unitise and how to NHS more efficient and prompt. Also uk citizens need to talk about privacy issue. If uk keep putting individuals’ privacy over unity, it would be difficult to control pandemic like this.

Like america?

@@CitsVariants haha good joke.

Yeah sure... Italy, USA, definetly doing great still have less than a thousand cases

@@sbevebren1642 Italy and USA doing great? Less than a thousand cases? Nice one

@@sbevebren1642 2000 cases a day, surpassed Italy

Welcome!!

Congrat!

So jelly!!

You don't have to.....

And i’m trapped in America :(

yeah i got a package when i returned to Korea last week, honestly I didn't need it but its great that they're doing it for free

This is a load of barnacles r/cursedcomments

This is a load of barnacles better than being one step ahead at gun violence 🤭

@@zoinks9864 really you think this is false

Grayson Whitlock ???

zoinks South Korea is far ahead of everyone else is the world in terms of Covid-19

Weyird you have a unique experience and I hope we learn from this as a country.

I guess past experiences teach well

Same. When I left, everyone in the airport had gloves and masks on. When I arrived in America, everyone in the airport had nothing on like there wasn't confirmed cases and no outbreak was going on. 🙄 Let alone the fact that in South Korea that you could get tested fast and know within the next day. At that point, America didn't even have a widely available test.

おちんちんシール because he’s right.

Emma Hadsell freak

Canberk Sasmaz they’re a really developed and advanced country too

Aaron Crawford I cant tell

Aaron Crawford can*

Canberk Sasmaz just edit your comment

I wish it's true. However, it's more of a regressive state. Filled with corruptions and oppressions.

So funny =)

But freedom of movement and the right to be safe is also a huge part of human right.

They don’t really understand enduring a bit of discomfort will actually solve this crisis much faster. They need to understand that protesting freedom won’t make their “Regular” freedom come back faster. But, something that I can’t relate, can’t more people at least have some concern for others and wear a mask? I know many don’t have access, but some just choose not to. Protecting themselves will also protect others, preventing the spread and possible deaths with a slight discomfort.

exactly. people dont realize that taking these extreme measures and even invading privacy to an extent is called sacrifice to get those human rights back as soon as possible . ITS CALLED WORKING TOGETHER.

I think your Other Countries refer to U.S. specifically based on their unreasonable protest recently.

Cambodia gov are the same too say don’t meet each other clean your hand and eating vitamins c

God bless

You mean Pakistan?

Their poor prime minister forgot to wash his hands only once!!!

Luckily after Brexit the U.K. doesn’t have any friends.

z z Korea is a homogenous, high trust society. My country - Britain - was once like that, but unfortunately it has been greatly tarnished by the effects of diversity and multiculturalism.

@@Miquelalalaa nah, mate, that ain't it. It probably has to do with how they value the group over the individual. Most Western countries are now all bout individualism, whereas as in Asia they prize the group more. That's why they prized more public health (which FYI benefits EVERYONE) over their "liberties".

@@anaisalvarez6017 Valuing and considering the group is channelled through their shared identity. You have just provided an example that reinforces my point. It's a basic psychological process to want to protect your group and people. I recently watched the documentary 'American Factory', it was clear that the mindset of the Chinese workers was geared towards advancing the fortunes and reputation of the Chinese people - I imagine it is similar in Korea. Group identity --> group mindset

@@anaisalvarez6017 Asian countries value "collectivism" .

@@Miquelalalaa Study Singapore. They have a large group identity but are extremely diverse.

Not exactly. China and Japan have Confucianism and they're not doing to well. Korean culture just advocates power for the people and that we must always work together to overcome hardships. A culture that despises lies and falsehoods and chooses to go for justice over anything else.

Can I have the source of that perfect quote?

Actually they did had a lockdown but now slowly they are lifting it up

South Korea didnt have a lock down. South Korea only postponed the start of school and is now conducting classes online.

@@arbaz79 they didnt have an official one where the goverment was like noone go out. People just stopped going out bec they didnt want it to spread. If other countries did that too they would need an official lockdown

No lockdown in SK

@@TealJosh No, South Korea did never lock down. People in South Korea have kept social distance. Thats all.

That's the difference. You really got it.

Americans don't just buy them, they hoard them

@허준서 그 마스크 부족해지면 제지값이 오른다고 하네요. 그래서 그런거 같아요. 정확하지는 않슴다

@Bodhi Sattva so collect food no?! What good is toilet paper

@@hairyputter5363 Panic mode of the simple mind. You see a handfull of people buying boatloads of TP, you buy it because they must know something you don't...

박근우 LOL

The sequel is happening bruh..watch it at home!

Stinky Sundae It was a joke but ok then...

lol

Wow lol

busyhoney bee stay safe and I wish I could visit Taiwan after this is over 🇹🇼💕🇰🇷

Taiwan did a very good job👍👍

Both are the best handling covid-19.

Shutting borders can actually hurt in the long run . While Korea has not blocked their border and have curved the virus with people still moving about leads to herd immunity. If taiwan was to get another outbreak the population wont have the immunity to fight it off.

Suddenly?? Taiwan??

I agree with you on all except the wearing masks part. A lot of people, medical professionals and the WHO said masks were basically useless and they should only be used by sick people to prevent from spreading to others. So I think a lot of people who were being responsible and careful otherwise decided against using masks for this reason. Edited to clarify: I don't personally think masks are ineffective. Just pointing out that that's what WHO said. I don't think we should blame the public for following the WHO either! WHO should have told people to make their own masks at home or something.

The assomption that people dont wear masks or wash their hands enough is so wrong in many ways. The problem in a lot of Western countries is that they have barely enough or not even enough equipment for the hospitals. And privacy is not so important for South-Koreans as it is for most Western countries and people...

Meghana Anjali they only said Masks should be worn by medical professionals ONLY because the MASKS were getting SOLD OUT and Medical personals didn’t have enough. Why would they tell medical professionals to wear them while WHO says it does NOTHING to prevent virus. These two things simply do not make sense together.

@@MeghanaAnjali We shouldn't blame the public for following these guidelines, but these guidelines are seriously faulty for a virus that can be spread by asymptomatic carriers. When you can't even tell if someone is sick or not for as long as two weeks, it's better if everyone just wears masks in case they're infected without knowing it.

@@kevinchung5288 you do know you can make your own mask, double it with tissue or somethin. Be creative, the point is to cover your mouth and your nasal But WHO be like:MaSK iS fOr tHE sIcK. They can tell to make our own mask if they want to reduce the panic buying

Yet Trump Cut funding WHO.... when he himself didn’t do anything to stop It.

@Sam Fisher i wanna marry your mom

By making citizens give up basic human rights. What a trade-off!

@@hilal_younus His admin helped to create it - "The National Institutes of Health recently announced it would renew funding research enabling scientists to alter pathogens to make them more dangerous, raising questions about whether the TRUMP administration had opened the door to a potential pandemic." December 2017 - The information is posted on NIH site.

@@nicholasgraham4402 maybe you misunderstood... But US and europe patriotic act is worst than this

Pollution From China

culture includes "social behavior and norms found in human society". So while you want to say its not their culture, by wearing masks to protect themselves and others is a learned societal expectation, which literally falls under the definition of culture.

Having lived in Asia I often saw people wearing masks (there was no pandemic at the time). I remarked to an Asian friend "are they afraid they're going to catch something?" They answered "NO! they probably have a cold or a flu and don't want to spread it to others." That's pretty thoughtful and that kind of mentality simply doesn't exist in Western Society.

I think the western misconception regarding masks is that only sick people wear them. Masks can be worn in any type of situation; it's not just the sick who wear it

@@jae2493Its not so much as a misconception as it is what our medical professional and scientist have researched and informed the public: masks are not effective at keeping a healthy person from getting sick, they are used to keep sick people from spreading it. The data from research backs this concept; however the issue people are now facing is that they can be spreading illness without knowing they are sick/don't show any symptoms (not just with SARS-COV-2).

Why not? This is a pen!

I will never know, I live in America.

Allie Smith too bad my country the USA is literally procrastinating on every single historic event from WW1 to the Coronavirus pandemic.

@@andychen5579 same for us Brits, why do we want to help a pathetically lazy government that just rely on us to ruin our lives just to prevent some rude old lady from dying?

CPP from lab in China. Manmade. Fault of WHO. Giving China more time . BUt there's a twist in the tale....😉😉😉😉

Nah, that's not part of my country's culture.

@Glory to God hahahaa thats just gold. And your user name just frames your comment perfectly😷

Glory to God nah, fam

Why they had to sacrifice the privacy, when they could simply lock the borders at the time of hearing of first infection in China? No one goes in, no possibility to transmit the virus. Simple as that. Instead, they chose to let people in and wait for the outbreak, as many other countries. Now they can stalk people legally. And you all think they did good job. People are so naive, they believe everything the government says.

only to get crushed by Trump's demand to up our military hosting fee by 500%

it's sad because the US economy will be crushed, but Trump will use Chinese as his scapegoat in the upcoming election to get votes from the ignorant and uninformed, the same as how he scapegoated muslims and mexicans in 2016. These are cult tactics which feed of fear, lies and paranoia. The world is not only in a terrible state at the moment, but it is in the least capable hands in the longest time.

앤티크_Anntik 😂😂😂😂😂

Justin Lee ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ true

So, a cult

when they have no "pope" they are cult. Lol.

She literally was in a cult which worship Man hee Lee alive human.

The cult would be connected with so-called conservative party who adore former dictatorship and Japan. They are nothing but evil in my opinion.

Is

@@user-nj5xi2qc8z 뭔소리임

@@user-nj5xi2qc8z 그때 문제가 크게 확장될 시초에 잘 판단했다는 뜻이 잖아요 ㅎㅎ 그때 잘 판단했던거니 과거형이 맞죠.ㅋㅋ 물론 그 밑에 댓글에 현재형으로 바꿔서 달린 댓은 칭찬은 맞죠 지금도 잘하고 있다는 뜻이니. 그렇다고 해서 원글러가 비꼬거나 지금은 못했다고 말하고 있는 건 아니죠. 논리적 판단에 오류가 있으시네요 ㅎㅎ

I agree.

@@user-ib6li3io9w 펙트!

That's because they implemented the measures as soon as they know there was the possibility of an outbreak, and not weeks, or even months, after the outbreak actually happened. If you have a small number of persons infected (and you are prepared, obviously), you can track all of their interactions, test them and contain them; this way the number of new infections will be low as well. If you wait too long, and the infection become widespread, then you may not even able to test all the people showing symptoms: in Italy, for example, during the late half of march, tests were reserved only to medical personnel and people that needed intensive healthcare. At this point, the only thing you can to to prevent further spreading is completely prevent any form of contact, since you don't know who is infected. Also the fact that in EU, UK and US people are STILL not taking the threat seriously and keep ignoring the measure imposed if they are not actually enforced by the police and the army.

Wlld said 👍

Exactly. In Germany, they actually had a pretty good grip on it. They developed a test in January, ensured that all labs are able to conduct it and then successfully tracked down the early clusters caused by people who came in from China and later on Iran. Where they dropped the ball was that they didn't realise that Italy hat become a Corona hot-spot early enough to cancel all mass events. And they didn't stock up on enough PPE. But otherwise, they managed to convince people to practice social distancing early enough that they death toll is relatively low.

America won't ever be able to this. We value personal freedoms and privacy over everyone's well being.

Yeah I'm just concerned that some countries may remove lockdowns without proper Korean anti pandemic system in place in hopes of trading lives for economy.

Red the early corona virus outbreak become a chance for S Korea ironically

@JH.L exactly, its estimated that for every confirmed case, 10-50 go undetected. SK tested people that didn't even get significantly ill which of course would make scary numbers.

@JH.L Exactly. no test, no patient. just like Japan.

Agree

It was because of patient 31, the 61 year old women that was infected with the virus, she refused to be tested several times and went to the shinchongri church that had at least 200,000 people and ended up infecting everyone in the church and they ended up infecting a lot more people in South Korea

Big brother "tracing" your every move. Sounds amazing.

@@liljoe123196 only if you get tested positive

deep N side The name, face, and address are not opened. Now we can have elections and everybody is free to visit anywhere they want to go, whereas most countries are in lockdown...who’s getting their rights violated now

deep N side yeh what’s worse that or living in lockdown with everything shut down?

And they shared information of the travel of the person or persons with covid. They didn't hide it and let it turn into an issue like America!

주모 아직 샤따 닫지 말고 있어봐

Yes, I agree.

빵댕이 한번 비벼보겠다고 클럽가는 애들 보면 오함마로 대가리 깨버리고 싶음 ㅋㅋㅋ

Atruise 머리에 자지달림

넵

Luckily, you have Teacher Kim.

are you not in lockdown anymore?

@@alyssaviolapalomar3707 We didn't do a lockdown originally

Jeho Hahm president Moon’s action is not much as Trump...;;

@@alyssaviolapalomar3707 Korea didn't lockdown at all

I was supposed to visit Taiwan in march and all of a sudden there was this madness. I had such a great time in Taipei last year. Hope i can visit again soon. Stay healthy🇹🇼🇰🇷

Thank you for saying that 🥰🥰

I liked how taiwan managed the things i think u guys did better our gov didnt blocked chinese u guys did we would have less infected ppl if we blocked chinese ppl

We love Taiwan :)

Taiwan did a marvelous job at containing covid-19 and deserves more credit. They were ahead of the WHO (I say this as a compliment!) Meanwhile, the corrupted WHO put politics first before anything else.

I mean, yeah but no. At first it was handled well, and contained, but one particular citizen, well I suppose you could say a cult, said whatever and had a meeting where tens of thousands of people met. and it's that 'women' who went to the hospital with a fever.

Dynamic and there’s still many people that think this virus is a hoax 😂

@@hapikoala Do you really go around telling people to delete comments like these? Because obviously I'm joking but some people actually believe that stuff. What about them? Do you try to persuade them that their opinion is wrong? Because if you do, you surely are busy. I edited it anyway.

@@LeoSegredos thank you

hahahaha

Trump Down Era

Don't worry , you will watch more of it for 4 more years lol

US has serious issues with their leaders and laws

US can easily nuke you and your puny country.

Trump: exists "You are not a clown. You are the entire circus"

Hannah Park People who hurt others at any time. This is the reason why Japanese people don't like Koreans.

二階堂守 Hmmm...are you sure? So I guess you decided to just erase the memory when Japan mocked Korea’s increasing number of tested patients claiming that too much tests will cause “medical collapse”, and that Japan is doing the best job...

二階堂守 Don’t you dare frame Koreans as madlads who attack at any circumstances. The one still claiming that test kits(which every country uses exept japan) are not reliable is japan. If there weren’t these mocks, you wouldn’t have to read these kinds of comments

김성윤 I don't know if Japan is the best job, but why do Koreans want to compare to Japan? Each government should do its best for its own people.

二階堂守 I’m not sure if you read what I wrote, but it was the Japanese that started comparing and it was Japan that started the mocking, thank you very much.

And most other countries care about money. Because they think that it's the most valuable resource.

@@siddharthsahu2101 Yet they went into lockdown while Korea didn't?

survival pete yeh because he had an agenda and needed people to play into it

Korea has neither great territory nor the natural resources which most of rich country has. People are the resources in Korea.

이현주 I'm also a Korean, and although I agree the medical experts and the public had the biggest part in preventing the spread of the virus, I still think our government did a pretty good job being transparent about the information and actually facing the problems. Especially when you recall the government reaction to MERS a few years ago, and also by seeing other countries react to the crisis. Also, the politicians will always use any kind of accomplishment in their favor regardless of which country they are in.

its threat level midnight

Ya, but I mean USA only has 500,000 Confirmed cases and rising, so, you know... no big deal. trump figures its a big nothing and will be over by easter, or has he stopped saying that?

@@phidoux1 Search for 'Trump's Coronavirus Calendar', with all his lies exposed as time goes on.

@Glory to God bruhhhhhhhh😂😂😂😂

@@erickmeza4848 buddy thats for nuclear arms

Welcome

Welcome🇰🇷

Yoo mee too 😂😂😂so just start packing my bag lol

welcome !

Same bruh

Exactly. I'm not Korean but friends with some and this seems to be the general consensus among the population. Freedom comes with responsibility, a responsibility to your country. But sadly, Korea's ability to persecute their government if they violate the law and abuse their power is not possible in other countries which are riddled with bureaucratic and political hullabaloos. It seems like every past Korean president since 1993 have been tried and gone to jail after their term at one point or another. You really can't do that in most countries. Hence the distrust of the population to their government. It's a sad situation all around.

That is why COVID case in your country is slower than any country in East Asia.

ㅎㅎ 동의합니다만, 타국이 따르기 어려운 부분이 아마 정보를 수집한 후 정부가 그걸 남용해서 권력을 추구할 시 막을 수 있는가 하는 부분일 거 같습니다. 당장 지금 일본도 비상사태를 지렛대 삼아 개헌하자는 이야기도 나오니까요. 한국은 거지같이 군다고 대통령 보내버린게 겨우 3 4년 된 나라죠.(애초에 이런 탄핵이 세계적으로 거의 유례가 없고) 유튜브 둘러보다 보니 타국의 시민사회가 한국만큼 자신감을 갖고 자국 정부를 대하기란 어려울 수도 있겠단 생각이 들어 의견 남깁니다. 그리고 왠지 나라 잘난척인듯도 싶어서 한글로만ㅋ

@@user-zu1yn7gl3g Haha, I agree, but the part that is difficult for other countries to follow is probably part of collecting the information and then stopping the government from abusing it to pursue power. It is said that right now, Japan is also using the emergency to leverage its constitution. Korea is only 3 or 4 years old when the President sent him to be a beggar. I think it might be difficult, so I leave a comment. And for some reason, I want to be a good country,

@@user-zu1yn7gl3gㅋㅋㅋㅋ 코멘트 감사드립니다. 저도 여차하면 피도 흘리지 않고 비교적 평화롭게 정권을 심판할 수 있다는 자신감이 쉽게 생기는건 아니라는 것에 동의합니다.

Tony Raffetto bro I wish I was back in Korea right now man, I really miss bein there and my South Korean friends, I’ve always had a great time there

As a Korean living in America... Idek where to start but I hope you’re having a good time there!

@@sarahchoi2657 I think both of you should switch position

Hi there

@Amethyst Korea's first case was detected in January

Tiny...VERY tiny country compared to the big boys like China, Russia, US. Lots to handle with a huge country and more than one race

Kjohn034 You’d expect that countries with more people would be trying at least half as hard as South Korea to stop the virus from spreading, but that isn’t the case, now is it? It doesn’t matter if they have a “tiny” country, that would be all the more reason for “bigger” countries to try harder, but they didn’t.

@@kjohn0347 This man is Japanese who are so jealous of how Korea's doing. 😂

@@kjohn0347 South Korea is sooo much more dense than America is. That leads to more people being closer to one another and a higher possibility of the virus spreading.

Reading you comment as a gamer 😬😵😳

There's still out of pocket costs besides the $15 copay. But not as expensive.

Not so rosy...you need to look at the news

이현주 you have to pay for insurance, and the NSA collects our metadata anyways. Suspending some privacy seems worth it if we could have better outcomes at a lower cost. But we seem to value nominal freedom over economic freedom, at least for the poor and middle class.

and they avoid hospital and mostly take medicine in their own hands. That is why Asians in United states has longer life span than any other nations.

and I bet they dont villify their "big pharma" like "some" in the US do eh?

I wanna too

thank you...my words exactly.

I live in Seoul right now and I agree!

Anything else that you think is worth sharing?

I live in Hong Kong, but Taiwan is doing the best in Asia!

@@akaphotography Taiwan No.1

Nationalism and ethnic homogeneity are positive forces 👍👍

Darude Seagalstorm I kind of agree. I hope ur doing all right in Korea. but there are many things there that are not right

​@Darude Seagalstorm It's pretty clear that you don't like the current SK gov't, but you don't believe in the numbers? If you are ACTUALLY Korean, then you must be living in a cave or something. Maybe you are the one who doesn't know what's going on in Korea right now. Also, I don't think the media is politically corrupted in such a way that praises President Moon. It's actually the opposite. Do you not remember how the media praised the Japanese or some European governments for managing the virus effectively until the beginning of March?

@@Alksdjeoxivls 대깨문 발견

@Darude Seagalstorm is obviously either a troll or a hater - I would leave that be

맞습니다. 2020 년 1 월 4 일에 그것은 백만 명이었습니다. 그리고 15.04.2020에 2 백만이 있습니다.

다 끝난거처럼 여기서 훈수 두다가 2차 3차 대량감염 사태 벌어지면 전 세계에서 조롱 받음 그렇게 안 되게 모두 조심 조심 밀폐 된 곳에서 여러명 모이는건 절대 피해야됨

디시애들은 K-방역 선동이라더라 ㅋㅋㅋ

@@user-yj8ud2kl8n ㅋㅋㅋㅋㄹ

Lian T I would not recommend to migrate there because it is hard to live in foreign country.

Go teach English there.

If you are black Teach them how to dougie, you will get paid $5000 a month

You can teach English over there, English teachers are in high demand over there!

Hi Im korean, Korea is GREAT place to migrate. you must learn how to fluently speak korean first as its not multicultural country. Education is very high there but all the technology is fastest. as long as you can master speaking you should be okay good luck

South Koreans are also great citizens, cough cough.

In Kuwait, we do this too 👍

I am pretty sure that for its population seize, Iceland does even better, and Germany at least comes close to South Korea.

Vietnam has a population of 90 million, is right next to China, and has 262 cases in total.

which means we will see the end of your country more or less this year?

Other countries just printing money to keep up. Hyper inflation incoming

You forget that Vietnam act alot quicker than South Korea and we don't get the attention...... We act way before Korea and now only has 200 cases and no deaths.

Great Depression: the reckoning

@@thitran1362 Yeah, here here. I'm South Korean. I'm just glad some countries are trying our ways, and seeing it worked. Although I don't exactly think its good to call it 'our way'(its really a no brainer solution to contain an outbreak). Only if the world actually listened and prepared. I like to think 'Who's laughing now?' But that's mean so I'm currently in conflict if I should think so. Anyways, my point is that people should try their best to find a solution for our current world crisis. I must say though, that some people who should try aren't trying that hard right now.

@@TheDonner000 : let's not get too cocky. South Korea was lucky in that a less infectious coronavirus MERS happened only 5 years ago (still vivid in most Korean's memory) and had SK prepared for the next crisis. South Korea's public health system was not ready for the MERS outbreak and literally paralyzed some parts of the country for a few months that it lasted.

캐나다에 사는 한국인 이에요! 자랑스럽고 감사합니다, 대한국민들!

*Coronavirus has left the chat*

WBU north Korea

@Yu Kay definitely Mine is largest democratic nation in the world.....

@Edmund A No, Japan hasn't stopped it, the virus is very much still growing in Japan.

@Edmund A Japan even has way more active cases compared to South Korea.

SK: Prepare for the worst, diagnostic kits first Everywhere outside SK: I DONT KNOW GO INSIDE JUST LET THE HEALTH GUYS DO THEIR THING

Sorry to say UK has always been an embarrassing country!

@@abramo7700 this is so true!

I strongly agree.

I am sKorean and I had a chance to study abroad in London. As much as I loved living there, there are some things I wished to be better. And one of them is hospital system. I know NHS amazing staffs and always care for public health. But the system that patients have to go through is rather tough. Once I was sick and had to visit the gp and it took me a whole half day. Then she handed me out a paper and with that I could go visit a bigger hospital which takes me a week to see a doctor there since I had to book a date. Unfortunately, I wanted to get well right away so I had to come back to Korea to have a faster treatment. In SKorea there are big university hospitals that takes over every sector of the disease-from orthopedics to internal treatments. But there are also many small specialist hospitals that you can go to. For example, if you have a sore throat you can go to ENT hospitals straight away and have it checked. It only takes few minutes to see a doctor and get medicines or treatments. It is similar to clinics in UK but with more variety of departments. So under this virus situation, since the departments are so divided into small hospitals that people who are infected by coronavirus and other patients are not sharing a same hospital. Therefore patients who do not have coronavirus still can get their treatments from small hospitals without fear. Stay safe and wish you all the best 💕

Taiwan also did a great job. bless their government

little mixmix that’s 100% facts right there💯

Koreans learned from USSR where this was made into a working system. There are countries in Eastern Europe who do contact tracing of covid too.

Especially, Japan still thinks they are better than Korea because their news is limited. They don' know and move much. I'm so sad as a Korean living in Japan. I wish they know the truth...

@Nonnis _ Not all of them. And what is this changing in my statement?

Also people are well educated

it is a communism gov. they are too sided to the left wing

This can be very dangerous tho

Joon Lee that’s North Korea

A true nationalist government. Multiculturalism has caused such unforgivable chaos and disorder. It makes me so angry.

근데 이번 큰 사건을 계기로 줄어들거라고 생각합니다

@@user-hv8do5ix3g 아니요

@@loopingpong1412 유감

그런 무식한사람이있을까? 종이다른데 ㅋㄲ

@@addufbfjjsjwi0 유럽인들 아메리카인들 아직도 그러는데요..? 그런 무식한 사람이 거기엔 도처에 널려있는데..?

People are very demanding It's real democracy country

@@jamesyoo5529 I think the SK people know when to demand their democratic rights and when to stand together to fight their common enemy. I also believe there are people who pray really strong

@@jesussaves6671 There is a joke that the hardest job is being the president in South Korea 😆 Most of former presidents have died soon or gone to jail

​ 김근형 Or coup d'etated out or resigned/kicked out

James Yoo ill mention philippines to that.

One hospital ship has a greater hospital bed capacity than entire cities do. In New york city where hospitals are overwhelmed, it's a prudent idea.

Hospital ship is more visible and gimmicky than more tests and contact tracing. After all, it’s THE united states anyway, they want other countries to see them(stupidly) as the greatest in everything.

@@RyanTaylor2000 most Asian countries learnt pain lessons before from SARS/MERS....America has not, and this sadly the reason why the US' outbreak is very big. But after this even the most stubborn ppl will be careful next time...(hopefully sigh) But they have HOSPITAL SHIPPPPPP REEEEEEEEEEEEEE

@@fraudulentfem7322 testing and contact tracing can prevent overloading the hospitals.

@Heathen S and that's a problem....how?

They’re not

Thank you for your service. You and Americans sacrifices in 1950s made South Korea today.

Thank you for your service !

We all Skoreans deeply appreciate all your service, helping us to become one of the best democratic countries in the world. And hope the alliance between us last for good.

@@alfie2113 lol it's just like an American to say this with literally no evidence.

@Joe Maleski what the corona Japanese

my friends made fun of me for skipping some classes back in early march saying "its just a flu". Well I'm in NY so you know how right I was in staying off the subway.

Taiwan is on top as well, shame on the WHO though for not aknowledging their existence

Most asian countries take action at a similar to level to South Korea

@@danieldologan2818 different approach tho. China and vietnam went on lock down. Tawian shut down borders from china. Korea didnt do any of those

I think that is correct when comparing S Korea and Taiwan

ㅇㅈ,,,(워스트)레전드 써리원,,,,

베스킨라벤스...써리원....

yume. min ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ

이번에 신천지급으로 터진 이태원사건 주인공 게이씨도 유명해질듯ㅋ 그 두명만없엇어도 지금 3첨명도안될거같은데 총확진자가

@@pjhij0926 그 사람들이 원인이 아니라 이미 그 동네 클럽에 깔려있었을 가능성이 더 크다고 하더만.