The humanity will ultimately overcome the COVID-19 pandemic. But the problem is what follows next. Scholars around the world talk about the Post-COVID-19. Each of them theorizes their own seemingly realistic ideas of “New Normal.”

Among all of their hypotheses, ‘giving science back to the public’ speaks to the heart.

At an online forum convened on Apr. 28 regarding the Post-COVID-19 and the new normal, Professor Park Sangook of Earth and Environmental Sciences Department at Seoul National University stated, “The science and technology should find their way back to the public in the future.” In fact, it was on the 100th day since the first reported case of COVID-19 in Korea.