<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large"><br></div>From: <b class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Sun Kim</b> <span dir="auto"><<a href="mailto:sunkim@phmovement.org">sunkim@phmovement.org</a>></span><br><div class="gmail_quote"><br><div dir="ltr"><div>South Korea (hereafter Korea)’s COVID-19 outbreak and response are still ongoing, and assessment of it is rather hasty. But we share this conditional statement because we think it is our responsibility to share Korea’s experience with civil society around the world, which is experiencing COVID-19 outbreak one tempo later than ours. In particular, we hope that the main barriers to the government responses and the efforts of the Korean civil society to find and fill the blind spots out of reach of the government policies or existing systems will be a lesson for the civil society of each country in the responses of COVID-19.</div><div><br></div><div>Please circulate this as widely as possible.</div><div><br></div><br><div><a href="http://phmovement.or.kr/phm-korea-statement-on-covid-19-outbreak-and-responses-in-south-korea/" target="_blank">http://phmovement.or.kr/phm-korea-statement-on-covid-19-outbreak-and-responses-in-south-korea/</a> <br></div><div><br></div><div>The full-text as follows;</div><div><br></div><div>---</div><div><br></div><div><h3 style="text-align:center;margin:16pt 0cm 4pt;line-height:115%;break-after:avoid;font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(67,67,67);font-weight:normal" align="center"><a name="m_-6058735895324382__3fiiriseopd5"></a><b><span style="font-family:"\00b9d1\00c740 \00ace0\00b515"">PHM Korea
statement on COVID-19 outbreak and responses in South Korea</span></b></h3>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:right;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" align="right"><span style="font-family:"\00b9d1\00c740 \00ace0\00b515"">March 19th,
2020</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"\00b9d1\00c740 \00ace0\00b515";color:rgb(45,45,45)"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"\00b9d1\00c740 \00ace0\00b515";color:rgb(45,45,45)">South
Korea (hereafter Korea)'s COVID-19 outbreak and response are still ongoing, and
assessment of it is rather hasty. But we share this conditional statement
because we think it is our responsibility to share Korea's experience with
civil society around the world, which is experiencing COVID-19 outbreak one
tempo later than ours. In particular, we hope that the main barriers to the
government responses and the efforts of the Korean civil society to find and
fill the blind spots out of reach of the government policies or existing
systems will be a lesson for the civil society of each country in the responses
of COVID-19.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:115%;color:rgb(45,45,45)">●<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman""> </span></span><b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"\00b9d1\00c740 \00ace0\00b515";color:rgb(45,45,45)">Barrier One: Reactionary right-wing
alliance makes the situation worse.<span class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large"> For more, go to the link above...</span></span></b></p><br>
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