Share of people feeling safe stockpiling due to COVID-19 South Korea 2020, by gender

According to a survey by Rakuten Insight on panic buying after the coronavirus outbreak in South Korea in 2020, around 82 percent of those respondents who engaged in panic buying said it made them feel safe. Of the nearly ten thousand South Koreans surveyed, a mere 15.4 percent of respondents said they had engaged in panic buying.