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Trainee doctors should return to hospitals now (KOR)

We urge trainee doctors and the government to resolve this crisis through constructive dialogue since the government left the room for renegotiation over the quota increase in 2026 and beyond.

2024.7.9

Trainee doctors should return to hospitals now

We urge trainee doctors and the government to resolve this crisis through constructive dialogue since the government left the room for renegotiation over the quota increase in 2026 and beyond.

2024.7.8

Doctors must return to the negotiating table

Doctors must return to the negotiating table to work out a compromise before it’s too late.

2024.6.5

Come back before it's too late!

It remains to be seen if trainee doctors will return to their hospitals after the government decided to allow big hospitals to accept their resignations.

2024.6.4

A statement by an emergency committee of medical professors of Seoul National University Hospital is posted on the walls of the hospital in central Seoul on Wednesday, announcing it would suspend all medical services except for emergency rooms and intensive care units on April 30. [YONHAP]

Medical professors to begin resignations Thursday, weekly days off amid protracted strike

Medical professors at major hospitals in Korea will begin resigning on Thursday as planned and take one day off weekly starting next week, arguing that they have been pushed to their limits from overwork with the junior doctors' strike.

2024.4.24

Rescue workers transfer an emergency patient.

Most vulnerable patients hit hardest amid gov't and medical sector standoff

Patients in critical condition or with severe illnesses are being hit the hardest by the ongoing clash between the government and the medical sector over the medical school quota expansion. Patients hold both sides responsible for the medical crisis.

2024.4.19

President Yoon Suk Yeol bows after finishing his public address on medical reform at the presidential office in Yongsan, central Seoul on Monday, a day before inviting junior doctors to join a direct dialogue with him. [PRESIDENTIAL OFFICE]

President Yoon affirms 'respect for voices of junior doctors' in face-to-face meeting

President Yoon Suk Yeol told the head of a major junior doctors' group that he will "respect" their perspectives during an in-person meeting at the presidential office on Thursday.

2024.4.4

Trainee doctors must engage in dialogue (KOR)

As the current medical vacuum was primarily caused by their walkout, they must accept a meeting with the president. We hope both sides untie the knot this time.

2024.4.3

Trainee doctors must engage in dialogue

As the current medical vacuum was primarily caused by their walkout, they must accept a meeting with the president. We hope both sides untie the knot this time.

2024.4.3

Is the 2,000 quota hike really irreversible? (KOR)

The medical community and the government must have dialogue now.

2024.3.25

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