Korea’s Virus Strategy is Tested by Outbreak at Nightclubs

  • Authorities tracing 5,517 clubbers from Seoul to Busan, Jeju
  • More than 3,000 out of reach, some on fear of gay stigma
Photographer: SeongJoon Cho/Bloomberg
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The “come forward, get tested” strategy that’s helped South Korea contain the coronavirus has run into an obstacle: the country’s longstanding homophobia.