ReviewThe Lancet regional health. Western Pacific2023
How to cope with emerging viral diseases: lessons from South Korea's strategy for COVID-19, and collateral damage to cardiometabolic health.
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- Integrated Clinical and Social Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Korea: A Combined Systematic and Narrative Review.Journal of Korean medical science · 2026Pooled it
- Effects of a Rice-Farming Simulation Video Game on Nature Relatedness, Nutritional Status, and Psychological State in Urban-Dwelling Adults During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Randomized Waitlist Controlled Trial.Journal of medical Internet research · 2024Trial
- Temporal Trends in Needlestick and Sharp Injury Incidence Rates During the COVID-19 Pandemic in a Tertiary Care Hospital in Korea.Journal of Korean medical science · 2026Article
- Reassessing Early COVID-19 Strategies in East Asia: Insights From Japan and Korea.Journal of preventive medicine and public health = Yebang Uihakhoe chi · 2026Review
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- Delayed at the Door: Impact of Pandemic Response Policies on Emergency and Critical Care in Korea: An Interrupted Time-Series Analysis.Journal of Korean medical science · 2026Article
- COVID-19 transmission dynamics: age-specific patterns and super spreaders in South Korea.BMC public health · 2026Article
- Non-standard employment, paid sick leave, and income loss during COVID-19 self-isolation: cross-sectional findings from South Korea.International journal for equity in health · 2025Article
- South Korea's Health Misinformation Response during COVID-19: A Narrative-Thematic Analysis.Asian bioethics review · 2025Article
- Changes in the Nationwide Incidence of Bell's Palsy in the General Population Before and After the COVID-19 Pandemic: An Ecological Study.Journal of medical virology · 2025Article
- What was associated with suicide planning in middle-aged and older adults during the COVID-19 lockdown?Archives of public health = Archives belges de sante publique · 2025Article
- Lessons learned from Taiwan's response to the COVID-19 pandemic: successes, challenges, and implications for future pandemics.European journal of public health · 2025Observational
- Acceptance of the COVID-19 Vaccine Among Postpartum Women in Five Countries.Women's health reports (New Rochelle, N.Y.) · 2025Article
- An examination of the relationship between perceptions that cigarette smoking increases the severity of COVID-19 and reduction in smoking during the COVID-19 pandemic: Findings from the 2021 ITC Korea Survey.Tobacco induced diseases · 2025Article
- Cost-effectiveness of wastewater-based environmental surveillance for SARS-CoV-2 in Blantyre, Malawi and Kathmandu, Nepal: A model-based study.PLOS global public health · 2025Article
- National trends in adolescents' mental health by income level in South Korea, pre- and post-COVID-19, 2006-2022.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Excess Deaths in Korea During the COVID-19 Pandemic: 2020-2022.Journal of preventive medicine and public health = Yebang Uihakhoe chi · 2024Article
- Risk of nosocomial coronavirus disease 2019: comparison between single- and multiple-occupancy rooms.Antimicrobial resistance and infection control · 2024Article
- Metabolic health is more strongly associated with the severity and mortality of coronavirus disease 2019 than obesity.Archives of public health = Archives belges de sante publique · 2024Article
- Pandemics: past, present, and future: multitasking challenges in need of cross-disciplinary, transdisciplinary, and multidisciplinary collaborative solutions.Osong public health and research perspectives · 2024Article
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Abstract
South Korea is a unique country in many aspects in terms of its strategy against the COVID-19 pandemic. From February 2020, the South Korean government adopted active epidemiological investigations, strict isolation of affected patients, and extensive public lockdowns, which were helpful in controlling spread until the end of 2021. This stable situation in South Korea has changed dramatically since the Omicron variant-reportedly less severe but more infective than the original strain-became dominant from January 2022. From mid-February to mid-April 2022, daily cases of COVID-19 in South Korea increased steeply, reaching > 600,000 cases/day: the highest incidence rate in the world at that time. Despite this rapid increase, the South Korean government has eased its preventive strategies progressively, based on the belief in the efficacy of >80% of vaccine coverage in the population. Now, in June 2022, the COVID-19 situation in South Korea is improving. The mortality rate is 0·13%: the lowest among the 30 countries with the highest case counts. High vaccine coverage rate (87·7%), the efficient healthcare system, and active co-operation between private sectors and the central government seem to have contributed to this. However, it should also be noted that the COVID-19 pandemic and its preventive measures have had a negative influence on cardiometabolic profiles in the country. Considering the likelihood of another novel variant of SARS-CoV-2 or new infectious disease emerging in the future, understanding the situation in South Korea and the strategies flexibly adopted by its government could be beneficial for many countries.
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