Housewife Catalina Yu got a shock when she popped into the grocery store near her house in southern Seoul on Sunday.
"All the food was gone and I thought a war had broken out. But it appeared that people were just stocking up," she told The Straits Times. Ms Yu, 47, lives in the upscale Seocho district, where three cases of coronavirus sparked panic buying over the weekend.
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