I agree, but I suspect that South Korea also has heavy bureaucracy. The sad thing is the USA and Europe were fully capable of handling this just like South Kor

I agree, but I suspect that South Korea also has heavy bureaucracy. The sad thing is the USA and Europe were fully capable of handling this just like South Korea. That's why this is really about a failure of leadership. I would like to think that this crisis will force Americans and Europeans to demand accountability, but I don't think that's going to happen. A token scapegoat will be found, "the people" will be congratulated for taking action in a time of emergency (and failure of government) and the leadership that were out-to-lunch when this stuff started going down will be accountable to nothing.