With the declaration of starting a "new daily life", the Korean government allowed people to relax outside, but the comfort did not last long.

Just 4 days after entering a new phase, Mayor of Seoul Park Won-soon on 9/5 ordered an indefinite closure of all bars and nightclubs in the capital, due to the discovery of a cluster of epidemics at facilities belonging to

Before the incident, South Korea was hailed as an effective anti-Covid-19 model without the need for strict blockade measures.

This positive development prompted the Korean government to loosen restrictions, turning to the strategy of "spacing in daily life", aiming at the goal of normalizing society.

"We cannot maintain society when our daily lives and economic activities are delayed," said South Korea's Health Minister Park Neung-hoo.

After finding the 29-year-old case, South Korea quickly conducted testing and contact tracing, with more than 14,000 tests conducted in Seoul.

Experts say that epidemics like Itaewon could become a "new normal", as countries try to balance Covid-19 control and restart the economy.

"It is likely that we will witness a period of limited loosening and then tightening again, until a certain proportion of the immune population is reached, either by a vaccine or by a sufficient number of infected, recovering.

According to Time commentator Amy Gunia, the new outbreak in South Korea shows that all countries, even once the pandemic is under control, must remain vigilant.

"A single case anywhere can lead to an outbreak. Countries will likely continue to experience outbreaks, then re-apply community separation as a fire extinguisher to keep them under control.

"The second wave of infection is inevitable," said Son Young-rae, senior government epidemiologist at the Korean government.

Kwon Soon-man, a professor of public health at Seoul National University, also considered the ups and downs of a pandemic to be inevitable due to the nature of nCoV, adding that it is still too early to comment on the severity.

However, he still pointed out the worrisome aspects of the epidemic, such as tracing exposure to risk more difficult than the translation from the Tan Thien Dia sect in February.

Some Korean media reported that the epidemic cluster at Itaewon was also related to gay bars, which made the process more difficult.

Despite these difficulties, experts still expressed confidence in Korea's ability to control the disease with the system that helped them succeed.

"Instead of returning to life before Covid-19 broke out, we are creating a new set of social and cultural norms," said South Korea's Deputy Health Minister Kim Gang-lip.