From our special correspondent in Seoul
The man in the white full-body suit " Chernobyl " arose among the rosis bodies of sweat, which were lounging in pajamas on the burning parquet. Abrupt end of game in this " Jimjilbang " this Sunday in Busan, the big southern port of South Korea. Visitors to this public bathhouse, an ancestral tradition in the land of the calm morning, were sent immediately to quarantine for fear that they would be infected with the coronavirus. This spectacular descent of the authorities into this leisure establishment, filmed on a smartphone by witnesses, illustrates the brutal awakening of the fourth economy of Asia faced with the epidemic threat, which is overflowing from China, and now threatens its neighbors. A patient carrying the Covid-19 had stayed in this public bath, resulting in these drastic measures, while President Moon Jae-in placed his country on Sunday on " red alert " against the virus. “ The situation has changed in nature. We must be ready to
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