This study examines, from a collaborative governance perspective, the public policy process of South Korea in responding to the global health pandemic. In many countries, attention has been focused primarily on governmental capacity and political leadership in containing the COVID-19 pandemic. In South Korea, however, the role of civil society as a collaborative partner to government is especially important. To analyze the comprehensive and substantive nature of government-civil society collaboration, this study assesses the response to COVID-19 along two dimensions: the level of civil society involvement in governance, and the stage in public policy development. The study reveals that the South Korean government was a coordinator of multiple actors and multiple sectors of society, including civil society, and that all three facets of civil society as described by Edwards (2004), were involved: associational life, civility, and engagement in the public sphere.

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政府和民间社会在韩国针对COVID-19进行的合作：是单演员还是多演员？

本研究从协作治理的角度考察了韩国应对全球卫生大流行的公共政策过程。在许多国家，注意力主要集中在控制COVID-19大流行的政府能力和政治领导上。然而，在韩国，民间社会作为政府合作伙伴的作用尤为重要。为了分析政府与民间社会合作的全面性和实质性，本研究从两个维度评估对COVID-19的回应：民间社会参与治理的程度以及公共政策制定的阶段。研究表明，韩国政府是多个参与者和社会各个部门（包括民间社会）的协调者，