Scott Snyder

Scott Snyder is Senior Fellow for Korea Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations and author of the book South Korea at the Crossroads: Autonomy and Alliance in an Era of Rival Powers. 

South Korean soldiers in protective gear sanitize a shopping street in Seoul, South Korea on March 4, 2020. The image is striking showing the soldiers dressed in silver space-suit looking protective gear walking down a more or less abandoned street in what appears to be a normally busy shopping district. REUTERS/Heo Ran
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Long-Term Impacts of Coronavirus in South Korea

by Scott Snyder

Despite South Korea’s high capacity for response, COVID-19's spread may incite human, economic, and political disasters