OPINION

South Korea: an example for Asean

Oped, Thanapat Pekanan, Published on 12/08/2021

» In late January 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced the outbreak of a new and deadly form of coronavirus in China, marking the pandemic as a global health emergency. Because of its close proximity to China and the contiguous nature of the regional landscape, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) was among the first regions of the world to be affected by the freely-moving virus.