SeoulPodcast

Guest

Jacco Zwetsloot
NK News Podcast - nknews.org
KBS World Radio

Coronavirus

• What did Korea do right?
  • Is mask wearing a cultural matter?
  • What about the end of visa-free travel to korea?
• Korea’s treatment of foreigners compared to other countries.
• Election season during the pandemic
• What do you think will change, if anything?
  • There’s no returning to pre-virus normal: KCDC
    • Does this mean forever?
    • what about mass events again?
    • Or does korea allow domestic normality, coupled with continued testing and tracking of people coming to Korea from overseas via apps and GPS?
    • Will I be able to go back to a bathhouse soon?
  • Economically
    • Producer of COVID-19 kits and possibly treatments
    • Real estate bust

Harry Harris reportedly to resign after US presidential election in November

 Harris purportedly upset with racist comments from S. Korean public

S. Korean schools begin online semester with no serious problems

Passing of long-time Korea expat Tom Pinansky last week

• In Korea since the end of 1988. Prominent in business circles, AMCHAM, and so on.
• The loss of 3 foreign lawyers in Korea in the last year who I knew personally
• The longer you stay in a country the more people who you know will die

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