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As countries around the world consider how best to reopen, it’s worth considering how South Korea has been able to flatten the curve without implementing extreme measures to restrict the freedom and movement of its citizens. While the effects of pandemic will likely reshape the workplace for the near term in South Korea—and perhaps even permanently—the county’s response to the pandemic may have positioned it to be among the first nations to experience an economic rebound.

With a few European countries now taking the first tentative steps towards the lifting of some COVID-19 restrictions, what can be learnt from experiences in Asia? The latter continent is generally thought to be in advance of Europe in terms of emergence from the pandemic crisis. However, it should be borne in mind, that as in Europe, so in Asia, the context and outcome vary by country, largely dependent on the government’s approach to the dealing with the spread of the virus.