South Korea Government

By Anonymous

 


Government Background

South Korea is a republic. People elect the national government leaders. South Korean president(s) are elected for a single five-year term. The president who is the head of state and the country's most powerful official appoints a prime minister, serves as the president's chief executive. The National Assembly (South Korea legislature) has 300 members who are elected to four-year terms by voters 19 years and older. South Korea has nine provinces which are divided into two kinds of government, cities, and countries. With time South Korea politics has changed and reorganized. Bareun Party, the Democratic Party of Korea, the Justice Party, the United Future Party, and the Peoples Party are all the parties there.

The Government Response to Covid-19

South Korean government has responded well to the virus. To prevent the virus from spreading furthermore Korea has had to test widespread, the ¨contacts of infected people were aggressively traced¨, and people were asked to frequently wash their hands along with social distance. Koreans have outstandingly followed that other governments are taking notes. Koreans were happy to follow the government plans to limit the spread only because of the transparency that was communicated with it.


Citations

Armstrong, Charles K., and Eugene Y. Park. "Korea, South." World Book Student, World Book, 2020,

www.worldbookonline.com/student/article?id=ar751408. Accessed 6 Nov. 2020.


"Loosening up; South Korea." The Economist, vol. 435, no. 9189, 11 Apr. 2020, p. 3(US). Gale OneFile: High School Edition, https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A619851862/STOM?u=tel_s_tsla&sid=STOM&xid=545833a6. Accessed 6 Nov. 2020.







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