“Gullmoosae” is a newly coined Korean word commonly used by stock investors to refer to investors who have lingering buy/sell regrets. The word is a combination of the Korean word ‘~halgul (should've)’ and the bird ‘engmossae (parrot),’ which describes the individual investor who regrets the past every time without buying or selling in advance.

The government’s response to COVID-19 is not so different from these ‘Gullmoosae’ investors. Korea has already suffered two out-of-stock crises - the lack of COVID-19 self-diagnosis kits in January followed by the lack of respiratory disease treatments such as cold medicine and antipyretics in March – due to the surge in demand that arose due to t