COVID-19, familism, and South Korean governance

Preface: Between the frustration of the human civilization and the self-esteem of South Korean culture -- Introduction -- Seeking Crisis Response Implementation Governance -- 1. Spread of COVID-19 and Social Crisis -- 2. Contradictory Issues in Crisis Response Strategies -- 3. Types of Crisis Response Implementation Governance -- South Korea's Socio-cultural Characteristics and State -- 1. Low Trust Society and Flat State -- 2. Familism and Dual State -- 3. War Time Culture and Switching State -- South Korea's COVID-19 Response Implementation Governance -- 1. Overview of South Korea's COVID-19 Response -- 2. Manifestation of Crisis Consciousness and Family State Stream -- 3. Meritocracy and Contract State Stream -- Outcomes of COVID-19 Response Implementation Governance -- 1. Family State and Social Capital -- 2. Switching State and Contextual Governance -- 3. Dual State and Cultural Approach -- 4. Information Society and Proactive Governance -- 5. Success of Crisis Response and Overcome of Western Cultural Bias -- Conclusion.

"This book traces the factors that contributed to the success in controlling the COVID-19 pandemic in South Korea, and identifies the concept of familism as a major environmental factor. The government of South Korea has achieved remarkable outcomes in its COVID-19 response, despite the fact that South Korea usually promotes a family-focused investment of resources at the expense of broader social goals. The author eschews these western cultural biases in theories of crisis management, and suggests that the key component of South Korea's success is not self-centered egotism of individuals, but a focus on family and familism, which projects state as an extension of family. He argues that while the success in managing the COVID-19 epidemic is due to a combination of factors, familism has been a key force in driving this successful response to the COVID-19 outbreak. The book will be of interest to scholars and students of governance, crisis management, civil society, and citizen's participation in public administration international relations, Asian studies, and cultural studies and Confucianism"--

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Illustrations -- About the author -- Preface: between the frustration of human civilization and the self-esteem of South Korean culture -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Seeking crisis response implementation governance -- 1. Spread of COVID-19 and social crisis -- 2. Contradictory issues in crisis response strategies -- 3. Types of crisis response implementation governance -- 3 South Korea's sociocultural characteristics and state -- 1. Low-trust society and flat state -- 2. Familism and dual state -- 3. Wartime culture and switching state -- 4 South Korea's COVID-19 response implementation governance -- 1. Overview of South Korea's COVID-19 response -- 2. Manifestation of crisis consciousness and family state frame -- 3. Meritocracy and contract state frame -- 5 Outcomes of COVID-19 response implementation governance -- 1. Family state and social capital -- 2. Switching state and contextual governance -- 3. Dual state and cultural approach -- 4. Information society and proactive governance -- 5. Success of crisis response and overcoming Western cultural bias -- 6 Conclusion -- References -- Index.