Hello and welcome to the intelligence on Economist Radio.

I'm your host, Jason Palmer.

Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world.

Tracking down who's been in contact with COVID-19 patients is tedious work.

Now, Apple and Google are laying the groundwork for apps to do it on nearly every smartphone.

We look into the promise and the perils of farming the job out to technology.

And with plenty of couples cooped up in COVID quarantine, you might expect more of one of two things, breakups or babies.

We examine data from past global crises to find out just how much the world's storks will have to do after the pandemic passes.

First up, though. Today, South Korea held national legislative elections, the first country in the world

to do so under the cloud of COVID-19.

It's had enviably low numbers of infections and deaths from the disease.

That's thanks to extensive testing and tracing of the contacts the infected have had with others.

So, electioneering has carried on.

One candidate is Teyong Ho, who was once a deputy ambassador to Britain for North Korea.

He defected in 2016 and is now running in the Swanky Seoul District of the who was once a deputy ambassador to Britain for North Korea.

He defected in 2016 and is now running in the Swanky Soul District of Gangnam

for the main opposition, United Future.

He's got a pretty catchy campaign video.

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Thinjongan-jinn-Hubboh.

Kiu-2-Pennyn, yourin-hundred-old Tijuana

people's

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