Asia Democracy Research Network Year Six - South Korea’s COVID-19 Pandemic Policy Optimization

To capture the pandemic policy performance on the health dimension, the total COVID-19 deaths per million in each quarter of 2020 is utilized.5 To observe the pandemic policy performance on the economic dimension, the percentage change in GDP between each quarter of 2020 to its counterpart in 2019 is employed.6 Compared to the alternative indicators, the aforementioned types of measuring the healt. [...] This consists of the sum of the standardized score of the health and the economic dimensions per quarter.12 For the variable of social risk, suicide rates are used as the proxy with the expectation that higher the social risk is in a country will lead to more facilitation of large-scale collective action.13 The variable of social trust is based on the percentage of respondents who answered that “m. [...] It is expected that the higher the social trust is in a country, the more likely the free-riding problem will be overcome.14 For the variable of confidence in authorities, the percentage of the respondents who chose “a great deal” and “quite a lot” to the question of how much confidence they have in the government in the seventh wave of the World Value Survey with the expectation that the higher t. [...] To sum up, the statistical analysis on the determinants of COVID-19 pandemic policy optimization confirms the theoretical prediction that the level of social risk is the most influential in explaining the performance of the COVID-19 policy, not social capital. [...] Compared to the risk perception of the government that shows some time lag between its rise and the peaks of the waves, the risk perception of citizens corresponds in large part to the change of the waves.