See I disagree with this perspective.
Yea, we're bigger. We also have more cities with high populations. But What SK did primarily in Seoul is the perfect pilot program to expand into national policy.
The problem is our government is filled with people deferring upward for decision making until it was too late.
Even today, the President went on TV with "guidelines." Not policy, not action, and certainly not teeth behind those guidelines. This is the inaction that we're fuming about.