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-19, 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

source 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 envyably low numbers of infections and deaths from a disease.

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

So, electioneering has carried on.

One candidate is Tae-young Ho, who's once a deputy ambassador to Britain for North Korea.

He defected in 2016 and is now running in the swanky Seoul District of Gangnam for the main opposition, United Future.

He's got a pretty catchy campaign video.

While countries such as America tussled with how to handle their own upcoming polls,

South Korea is showing how things can go ahead almost normally.

I went to a polling station in Gangnam this morning.

Lina Shipper is our sole bureau chief.

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