“In exchange for wearing masks and being tracked at all times, people go to school and work and, statistically, enjoy a far higher chance of survival,” etammykim writes, about South Korea’s response to the pandemic.
When my mom and I arrived at Incheon Airport in November, after twenty uncomfortable hours in K94 masks, I was shocked by its emptiness. There seemed to be more workers in face shields and white Tyvek suits than travellers. A polite young man from’s national health corps inspected our stack of documents, took our temperatures, and explained the conditions of our imminent ten-day quarantine.
We never lost touch with our relatives there, though, and several of them sent fretful text messages whennursing homes on the Korean news. Was I O.K.? “This moment has taught us that the West we’ve so admired isn’t as logical and reasonable as we thought,” the then mayor of Seoul said at a press conference. “In New York, up to six hundred and thirty people a day are dying. In all of Seoul, two people have died.” The mayor added that medical costs in the U.S. were “unimaginably high.
On day two of our quarantine, Mom and I were required to go to the neighborhood health office to get tested for-19. We were also told to install Korea’s Self-Quarantine Safety-Protection app, which paired us with a civil servant named Mr. Park. Though we would never meet him in person, his temporary job, on top of his real job, was to insure that we stayed healthy and didn’t go. I imagined him monitoring our locations by G.P.S.
. We had come to Korea betting that things were on their way to some version of normal; now we knew that this would not be the case. In late November, we tested out of quarantine and moved into a studio apartment in the city of Cheonan. By then, the Omicron variant had arrived in Korea, and society was freshly circumscribed. In December, the Korean Disease Control and Prevention Agency tightenedrestrictions on indoor dining, then tightened them again.
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