English Lessons & Scars of COVID19 in Daegu: Shall This Be a Memory of Solidarity? Jinkyung Byun Daegu was in the midst of hate and exclusion, solidarity and humanism that represented the era of COVID19. There were signs saying “No Daegu Gyeongbuk visitors” at hospital front doors in the metropolitan Seoul area. Thousands of online replies criticized a confirmed patient from Daegu who visited h The front line workers of COVID-19 시사IN 편집국 Foreign media are focusing their attention on South Korea, calling it an 'exemplary country for the virus defense'; Not only the government, but also Blue House, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, medical staffs, shadow workers in hospitals, volunteers, and Korean citizens maintaining socia The Expugnable Link: What COVID-19 Has Disclosed Hyewon Jeon, Younghwa Kim, Kyung Hee Na A Coupang courier lost his life – a 46-year old gentleman. In the early dawn of 2 AM of March 12th, he was found dead in a stairway between the 4th and 5th floor of an apartment building located in Ansan. He was delivering 10 boxes of consignment sprinting up and down the stairs. One of his colleagu Everything You Need to Know About COVID-19 Testing Yuni Kim Diagnostic testing is almost the only thing that the world has to fight the novel coronavirus, COVID-19. Most nations with confirmed cases of the virus are braving these dark times without vaccine or proven remedy by turning their to expedient identification and quarantine for countermeasures. Natur Daily Journal of Doctor in the Infection Ward: the very front line against the Corona Virus Choi Won Ho Choi Won Ho, initially a surgeon, works at Masan Medical Center which is a COVID-19 exclusive hospital. Instead of carrying out surgeries, he is treating COVID-19 confirmed patients. Sisain asked Dr. Choi to share with our readers his daily journal at the frontline against COVID-19 . “I do not think In Spain, every night at 8 pm, millions of people clap José María Irujo As of 26 March, 56,188 people have tested positive for COVID-19 in Spain. The country has the second-highest number of COVID-19 deaths after Italy. José María Irujo, an investigative journalist of El Páis, the Spanish daily newspaper, sent us a special report on this subject. El Páis, founded in 197 "This is how they made it in S. Korea, Large-Scale Diagnostic Tests" Yuni Kim It was 8 in the morning of Friday, January 10, 2020. Around 20 infectious disease experts gathered at a conference room in Jung-gu, Seoul. It was the time when the cause of a cluster of pneumonia cases, first reported in Wuhan, China from late December of 2019, began to be identified. The Korea Cent How did the Cheongdo Daenam Hospital become a deserted place Hyewon Jeon It was on February 23 when Yoo So-yeon, professor of Nursing at Gachon University, and Han Su-Ha, professor of Nursing at Soon Chun Hyang University, first entered a psychiatric closed ward on the 5th floor of Cheongdo Daenam hospital. It has been five days since this hospital reported the country’s Simulations know the future beyond COVID-19 Yuni Kim The United States and United Kingdom both shifted their policy paths around a similar time. The two countries which had maintained a somewhat lukewarm attitude, adopted strong social distancing measures starting from mid-March. Behind this policy shift is an Imperial College London report written by “Even if this happened again, I would volunteer once more.” Kyung Hee Na The lobby is the best place to see the cherry blossoms in the hospital’s courtyard. Most of the cherry blossoms have wilted, and green leaves have started to emerge. Just finishing her shift, nurse Eunmi Kim (41) sits on the lobby’s balustrade and stares vacantly at the withering cherry blossoms. “T Kim, Hyun-Ji (32) Internal medicine Doctor Kyung Hee Na “I was actually on leave when I saw the notice from the Korean Society of Critical Care Medicine (KSCCM), saying that Daegu needs more healthcare workers. That's how I volunteered. I even met a friend, Paik Sang-Ik, from my medical school. We kind of bumped into each other. I know how professional a Park, Gyung-Seok (25) Disinfection worker Kyung Hee Na “I started taking on this part-time job because my semester got pushed back, so it’s been a month now. I work for a disinfection company and, and we get commissions from public health centers. Some people do the night hours, but for me, it's 10 AM to 9 PM. It's a three-person job, but one of us has Joo, Mi-Gyong (42) Nurse - Ward 52 Kyung Hee Na “I’m a nurse in Ward 52. The patients in Ward 52 are mostly seniors from nursing homes. They need special care from a closer distance. So we tend to fix our masks and goggles a little tighter than usual, just in case. I guess that's why we get deeper marks. I came from a children's hospital in Sunch Nam, Yoon-Ho (29) Nurse - ICU 1 Kyung Hee Na “We have two intensive care units in Daegu Dongsan Hospital. ICU 1 is for patients with more severe symptoms. I’m in charge of the nurse station for ICU 1. Under normal conditions, this position wouldn’t have been offered to me with only 4 years of experience. But with all the volunteers arriving, t Na, Hyo-Jeong (26) Nurse - ICU 1 Kyung Hee Na “I make doodles on my tablet PC whenever I have some spare time. My drawings are mostly my coworkers. The Powered Air Purifying Respirator(PAPR) creates terrible back pains but it’s kind of a funny look if you look from the side. It looks like an alien. I used to work in an emergency room at a big h Paik, Sang-Ik (30) Army Surgeon Kyung Hee Na “I am an internal medicine doctor, currently serving in the military as an army surgeon in the Armed Forces Guri Hospital. I completed two out of three years of my duty. It’s my third week of dispatch at Dongsan Hospital. Volunteering in the ICU was my decision. I knew ICU requires a much more inten Jeon, Dae-Hwan (28) Operation team - donated items Manager Kyung Hee Na “We received a lot of donations right after the hospital was designated as an exclusive hospital for COVID-19. Although we don’t get as much now, the cargo truck still shows up four to five times a day. I noticed that there is a sort of 'trend’ for donation items. In the beginning, it was mostly sna Gang, Shin-Tae (64) Medical waste disposal Worker Kyung Hee Na “Three hundred eighty-six. That’s the number of waste bins that has been exposed from evening of April 6 until this morning, a total of 1722 kg. The situation is much better now. Back before when the hospital was flooded, there were over six hundred 30-liter bins per day. The truck had to pick them Hong, Chan-Joo (54) Care helper Kyung Hee Na “I used to do home care services in Seoul when I saw the news that they needed more of us in Daegu. I just had to come. The senior I was working for told me to go, saying that it’s a noble thing to do. My job is no different here. Changing diapers, checking for bedsore, making beds…. The only differ Kim, Ji-Hun (26) Radiologist Kyung Hee Na “Fourteen radiologists are working in three shifts to take 200 X-ray pictures every day. You may think it’s a simple job and all you have to do is take a photo and send it to the doctors, but it is not. Adjusting the radiation for each patient to minimize the exposure or post-processing the pictures 더보기