Publication Type
Journal Article
Version
publishedVersion
Publication Date
8-2020
Abstract
This study explores the processes of intercrisis and intracrisis learning and the link between them, drawing on South Korea’s responses to the COVID-19 pandemic as an example. The crisis management literature suggests that intracrisis learning is less likely to occur than intercrisis learning due to inherent barriers that hinder learning and adaptation in the heat of crisis. Based on the conceptual framework of problem-oriented governance and crisis learning, we unpack how prominent outcomes of intercrisis learning facilitate intracrisis learning during the acute phase of an emerging crisis. We postulate that learning after 2015 MERS crisis developed the core capabilities for problem-oriented governance which, in turn, have facilitated learning during the COVID-19 pandemic. We also posit that these capabilities continue to be enhanced through ongoing intracrisis learning processes. Our findings indicate that, in South Korea, such capabilities— reflective-improvement capability, collaborative capability, and data-analytic capability—have been substantially developed after 2015 MERS crisis and are getting more sophisticated as a result of on-going intracrisis learning during the COVID-19 pandemic. Theorical and practical implications for crisis learning are discussed.
Keywords
COVID-19, Intercrisis learning, Intracrisis learning, Problem-oriented governance, South Korea
Discipline
Asian Studies | Emergency and Disaster Management | Public Affairs, Public Policy and Public Administration | Public Health
Research Areas
Political Science
Publication
Korean Journal of Policy Studies
Volume
35
Issue
3
First Page
95
Last Page
118
ISSN
1225-5017
Publisher
Seoul National University, Graduate School of Public Administration
Embargo Period
7-5-2021
Citation
NA, Chongmin, LEE, Seulki, & YEO, Jungwon.(2020). How do intercrisis learning outcomes affect intracrisis learning? “Learning in the making” in the case of South Korea’s Covid-19 response. Korean Journal of Policy Studies, 35(3), 95-118.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/3318
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