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Special Edition: COVID-19 Lessons from South Korea

On this special edition Deep Dish episode, The Wall Street Journal’s Dasl Yoon reports from Seoul on South Korea’s approaches to containing COVID-19.
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Through a series of special edition  Deep Dish  episodes, we’re taking you inside the global COVID-19 pandemic response by talking to journalists on the ground. We begin in South Korea, which ranked among the top ten countries for total cases at the time of recording. The Wall Street Journal’s Dasl Yoon, reporting from Seoul, joins us to explain what other countries can learn from South Korea’s innovative approaches to successfully flatten the curve of new infections – without shutting down the economy.

About the Speakers
Brian Hanson
Former Vice President, Studies
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Brian Hanson served as the vice president of studies at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs. He managed the Council's research operations and hosted the Council's weekly podcast, Deep Dish on Global Affairs.
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Dasl Yoon
Research, the Wall Street Journal