Former Korea Herald Chairman Criticized for COVID Comments
A former Korea Herald chairman appears to have had enough of COVID protocols in Korea:
Hong Jung-wook, a former chairman of the Korea Herald and ex-lawmaker, who is now chairman of the food company Organica, has caused a stir after calling Korea’s COVID-19 control measures “totalitarian” while praising the speed of the U.S.’s vaccination drive and return to normal daily life in his latest Facebook post.
Korea Times
Hong wrote July 5 that it took him less than five minutes at customs upon arriving in New York to check his health regarding COVID-19 and that wearing a mask was optional.
“The country that has seen the world’s highest number of casualties due to COVID-19 is now returning to daily life quickly,” he said. “On the other hand, it takes about an hour to enter Korea. For even vaccinated people like me, they have me write in an app, call me and send me text messages every day, only to hear me say, ‘no symptoms.'”
Hong, who served in the National Assembly from 2008-2012, said that Korea’s disease control authorities should put more effort into vaccinating citizens instead of into trying to control them.
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Need more like him
Oooooo not toeing the company line…he might jump off a building if he’s not careful…
“Need more like him”
Hmmm.
See… totalitarianism and the vaccine and covid may not even be related.
Getting everyone vaccinated means nothing with the LAAAAAAMBDA Resistant Strain… assuming the vaccine is even a vaccine… revised numbers are looking closer to 50% than 95% as the vaccinated catch covid.
Totalitarianism doesn’t need covid… that’s just the current excuse since terrorism is played out, global warming is a generational effort, racist extreme right wing violence never even got a single contrived example, and murder hornets never had a chance. Cyber attack (that shuts down energy production andsupply) and War With China will make the covids as forgotten as global cooling and peak oil.
And, of course, the vaccine IS totalitarianism.
Sounds like he is talking freedom but promoting the tyranny of involuntary medical experimentation.
The guy has a point there.
The current political leadership and civil service is scared s***less of finger pointing and criticism from the opposition party and the press, that they have forgone bold leadership and decisiveness for simply having a good day at work.
That’s why Korea has become from what was once the darling boy of pandemic control to a laughing stock.
And one has to remember that the pandemic control part came after initial indecisiveness from the PM at that time, which led to a lot of criticism and the government finally taking action to mitigate that criticism.
BTW that former PM is now running for President.