Now, I’m open to detailed comparisons by people who know more (math? facts?) than I do.

I’ll admit Korea didn’t take as many precautions about data privacy as it could (easily) have done.

Maybe the fact more elderly people live with adult kids made a difference here. I dunno. But even so, The Economist promoting articles praising Sweden’s handling of COVID to people in Korea looks embarrassingly dumb to me, in the way committed ideologues who ignore reality always look.