Pride creates prejudice. Korea has become a model example for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) prevention. At the start of the spread of COVID-19, Korea failed to contain the outbreak. Just two months ago, Korea was the worst infected country due to the mass outbreak in Daegu-Gyeongbuk. Over 170 countries imposed travel restrictions for travelers from Korea. The people's voluntary acts of social distancing, thermal monitoring, widespread use of face masks and hand sanitizers, use of information and communications technology (ICT), aggressive testing, tracking suspected patients and tracing contact until the end, have dramatically overcome the COVID-19 epidemic in Korea. However, most experts predict that a second epidemic will come this fall and winter, 2020. It is necessary to prepare the nation by deciding that the second epidemic of COVID-19 will surely come. I would like to suggest that we should prepare for the second epidemic and sustainable social distancing measures in Korea.
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