During his 2022 New Year’s address, President Moon Jae-in expressed his gratitude and respect to the medical professionals and personnel working to contain and prevent COVID-19 and restressed the excellence of Korea’s disease control and prevention system.

The president also expressed his ambition to achieve complete recovery of the peoples’ lives by strengthening epidemic prevention and control in the new year.

While delivering his New Year’s address at Cheong Wa Dae on the 3rd, President Moon Jae-In said,” Korea’s response to the virus has risen to prominence on its merit amid the global fight against COVID-19."

“During the past two years of the COVID-19 pandemic,