Pandemics and citizen perceptions about their country: Did COVID-19 increase national pride in South Korea?
- Authors
- Lim, Sijeong; Prakash, Aseem
- Issue Date
- 7월-2021
- Publisher
- WILEY
- Keywords
- civic awareness; international leadership; national pride; pandemics; South Korea
- Citation
- NATIONS AND NATIONALISM, v.27, no.3, pp.623 - 637
- Indexed
- SSCI
SCOPUS
- Journal Title
- NATIONS AND NATIONALISM
- Volume
- 27
- Number
- 3
- Start Page
- 623
- End Page
- 637
- URI
- https://scholar.korea.ac.kr/handle/2021.sw.korea/127745
- DOI
- 10.1111/nana.12749
- ISSN
- 1354-5078
- Abstract
- Exogenous shocks such as pandemics have a profound influence on how citizens think about their country. We explore how the successful handling of COVID-19 shaped South Korean citizens' perception of their country. Empirically, we compare data from surveys conducted in August 2019 and April 2020. Using regression on matched samples, we find a significant increase in general national pride. More importantly, we find an increase in positive assessments of their country in domains directly related to the COVID-19 response (civic awareness and international leadership) but not in domains less directly related to the pandemic. We also find that while Koreans take pride in their collective response to the crisis, their disenchantment with the political class has grown. The implication is that citizens offer a remarkably nuanced understanding of how the COVID-19 response reflected the strengths of the Korean society, as opposed to the Korean political system.
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