Why the hell hasn't S.Korea begun with vaccination?

because they aren't the ones producing it, it depends on the supplier.

It looks like they'll be using AstraZeneca for now and USA and Europe had started the vaccination with Pfizer and Moderna which were approved much earlier.

So yeah, they're using a vaccine that took more time to get approved.

Western nations had pretty much locked up the supply of vaccines. Even East Europeans are left out and have to go to Russia or China for vaccines.

South Korea won't buy vaccines from Russia or China because of politics so they'll need to wait until the West have enough to spare.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news…russia-china-for-vaccines

I think they have conflict

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Western nations had pretty much locked up the supply of vaccines. Even East Europeans are left out and have to go to Russia or China for vaccines.

South Korea won't buy vaccines from Russia or China because of politics so they'll need to wait until the West have enough to spare.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news…russia-china-for-vaccines

Not just politics also based on safety chinese vaccines are dangerous 50 % are fake and use very harmful chemicals just like the fake food scandal they have nobody wants to risk that especially since they hid 2 pandemics in a row so yeah we'd rather wait on USA vaccines knowing they work and won't be straight up poison