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Seoulites lounge on picnic mats in the grass at Ttukseom Hangang Park on a late summer weekend in 2021. Located under ring-shaped entry and exit ramps leading to a bridge and an expressway, the park is a popular gathering spot for young and old alike.
Aspiring insurance agents sit for their qualification exams at desks spread apart on a soccer field in South Korea on April 25, 2020. The Korea Life Insurance Association and the General Insurance Association of Korea were among the many public and private institutions that introduced socially distanced exams during the pandemic. It was a very windy day, but more than 18,000 people across Korea took the insurance agent exam—happy that they had resumed after a hiatus of more than two months.
After Netflix docuseries “Chef’s Table” featured Buddhist nun Jeong Kwan, visitors began flocking to Baekyangsa Temple, in Jangseong County, for overnight stays and her lessons in cooking vegetarian temple cuisine.
SLOWING THE SPREAD 04.14, Seoul, South Korea At the H Plus Yangji Hospital in Seoul, a walk-in testing clinic is set up like a row of phone booths to prevent contact between patients and medical staff. Nose and mouth swabs take less than three minutes, and test results can be returned in four to six hours. Experience with previous disease outbreaks prepared South Korea for the COVID-19 pandemic. The country already had a legal framework for contact tracing, and most residents stayed home and wore masks in public. The government worked with the private sector to swiftly ramp up testing. There are hundreds of testing sites throughout the country.
Konstantinos Polychronopoulos offers a bowl of soup to refugees walking by on Ermou Street in Athens, Greece. Polychronopoulos runs the soup kitchen, O Allos Anthropos, whose motto is “food for all.” The kitchen has become a vital lifeline for residents from all walks of life during the pandemic.
Walk-in patients get tested for COVID-19 at a private hospital in Seoul, South Korea. Testing areas are set up like phone booths in order to prevent contact between patients and medical workers. Testing consists of nose and mouth swabs and collecting sputum and takes less than a minute—analysis can take from four to six hours. The hospital tested 2,700 patients and identified four confirmed cases between March 10 and April 22, 2020.
At the peak of South Korea's COVID-19 outbreak, the government advised against all religious gatherings. As the country's daily number of new infections has dropped below a dozen, social distancing restrictions have been gradually eased. On April 23, just a week before Buddha's Birthday, a large number of buddhist devotees gathered at Jogyesa Temple in downtown Seoul to pray.
Following the advice from the South Korean government, public and private institutions introduced exams that adhere to social distancing. On Saturday, April 25, the Korea Life Insurance Association and the General Insurance Association of Korea conducted a qualification exam for insurance sales agents outdoors. It was a windy day, but more than 18,000 people sat for the exam across Korea. Test takers were happy that the exams resumed after a hiatus of more than two months.
Jo An-na, 35, and Seong Geum-ran, 33, put on Level-C protection at the ICU nurses’ station at the National Medical Center, Seoul, South Korea, April 14, 2020.
Individuals arriving from overseas receive mandatory testing for COVID-19 at Eunpyeong District Health Centre in Seoul, South Korea, May 2, 2020. These community health centers have been the very frontline of testing and detection in South Korea’s battle against the coronavirus.