01811nam a22001577a 4500 517744 517744 210727b ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d Lee, S., Yeo, J. and Na, C. 27988 Learning from the past: Distributed cognition and crisis management capabilities for tackling Covid-19 American Review of Public Administration -735 50(6-7), Aug-Oct, 2020: p.729 The outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has presented an unprecedented public health crisis across the globe. Governments have developed different approaches to tackle the complex and intractable challenge, showing variations in their effectiveness and results. South Korea has achieved exceptional performance thus far: It has flattened the curve of new infections and brought the outbreak under control without imposing forceful measures such as lockdowns and travel ban. This commentary addresses the South Korean government’s response to COVID-19 and highlights distributed cognition and crisis management capabilities as critical factors. The authors discuss how the South Korean government has cultivated distributed cognition and three core capabilities—reflective-improvement, collaborative, and data-analytical capabilities—after its painful experience with 2015 Middle East respiratory syndrome-coronavirus (MERS-CoV). South Korea’s adaptive approaches and its learning path examined in this commentary provide practical implications for managing potential additional waves of COVID-19 and a future public health crisis. – Reproduced COVID-19, Public health crisis, Emergency and crisis management, Distributed cognition, State capability 25856 American Review of Public Administration COVID 19 PANDEMIC AR 0 0 ddc 0 0 391810 IIPA IIPA 2021-07-27 50(6-7), Aug-Oct, 2020: p.729 AR124994 2021-07-27 AR