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- Title
Explaining South Korea's COVID-19 Response through Various Levels of the Institution.
- Authors
Hyobin Lee; Kee Hoon Chung
- Abstract
Institutional infrastructure provides a context for leadership to implement its policies. Yet prior studies on South Korea's successful COVID-19 response have focused primarily on the administration's leadership, the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA), and the learning effects from Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS). Using South Korea as a case study, this paper introduces a theoretical framework that captures various institutional determinants to explain its COVID-19 response. Applying Williamson's (2000) theoretical framework on the four layers of social institutions, we show how two institutional infrastructures Confucian and — collective norms and legacies of the business-government networks may have — contributed to South Korea's COVID-19 response through policy compliance, supportive R&D policies and inter-ministry collaboration. One of the key implications of our research lies in the learning effects of MERS, which may have been limited without institutional infrastructure like business-government networks.
- Subjects
SOUTH Korea; MIDDLE East; COVID-19 pandemic; MIDDLE East respiratory syndrome; INSTITUTIONAL environment; SOCIAL norms; CONCEPTUAL models; SOCIAL institutions
- Publication
Korea Observer, 2023, Vol 54, Issue 2, p205
- ISSN
0023-3919
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.29152/KOIKS.2023.54.2.205