Kim, Hyung-A2022-12-122022-12-121839-0242http://hdl.handle.net/1885/282268Worldwide demand for South Korea’s ‘drive-thru’ COVID-19 test kits and other precision contact tracing methods boosted the country’s image as a leading global health care and technology powerhouse. Early success in managing the pandemic also gave South Korean voters more confidence in President Moon Jae-in’s administration. On 15 April, Moon’s public approval rating reached a 17-month high of 54.4 per cent and his Democratic Party won a landslide victory in the parliamentary elections.application/pdfen-AU© 2020 The Author(s)https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/2020-06-112021-11-28Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported Licence