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Park Dan speaks to reporters on his way to the police agency for a questioning session in western Seoul in August 2024. [NEWS1]

Junior doctors torn on returning to training as deadline passes

As the government’s March 31 deadline for medical students’ return to school passes, attention is shifting to the future of junior doctors who collectively resigned last year in protest of the medical school admissions expansion plan.

2025.3.31

A medical worker enters the emergency center at Seoul National University Hospital in Jongno District, central Seoul, on Friday, passing a banner that notifies the postponement of treatment at the emergency room. [YONHAP]

Seoul National University hospital walkout to go ahead as planned Monday

Medical professors at Seoul National University (SNU) and its four affiliated hospitals announced on Friday that they will stage an indefinite strike as planned starting Monday.

2024.6.14

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A patient sits in a wheelchair in front of a hospital in Seoul on Wednesday. [YONHAP]

Chaos looms as more medical professors opt for indefinite strike

Fears of chaos in Korea's medical system are growing after more doctors at the country’s largest teaching hospitals decided on Wednesday to stage an indefinite walkout.

2024.6.12

Doctors walk at a hospital in Seoul on Monday, a day after the Korean Medical Association announced a general strike on June 18 to protest the government's decision to increase the medical school quota. [YONHAP]

Gov't orders community doctors to continue working amid threatened strike

The government on Monday ordered community doctors to continue providing medical services and to report to local governments when they close their practices on June 18, expressing “deep regret” over the doctors' planned general strike.

2024.6.10

A doctor walks down a corridor inside a university hospital in Seoul as the ongoing junior doctors' strike entered its 100th day on Wednesday. [YONHAP]

Gov't to pour additional 77.5B won into emergency healthcare

Prime Minister Han Duck-soo said that the Cabinet had agreed to pour an additional 77.5 billion won ($56.7 million) into the country's emergency healthcare system as the ongoing strike by Korea's junior doctors entered its 100th day on Wednesday.

2024.5.29

Health Minister Cho Kyoo-hong, center, speaks at his first press conference at the Seoul Press Center in Jung District, central Seoul, on Wednesday. [NEWS1]

Health minister implores junior doctors to return to work, but concedes little

Health Minister Cho Kyoo-hong pleaded with striking junior doctors to return to work in his first press conference in over a year on Wednesday.

2024.5.22

Patients walk down a darkened corridor in an unspecified major hospital in Seoul on Sunday. [YONHAP]

Gov't files documents defending medical recruitment hike to court

The government has submitted documents defending its decision to expand annual medical school admissions by 2,000 spots in a case that is on appeal before the Seoul High Court, according to a lawyer representing the plaintiffs on Saturday.

2024.5.12

Prime Minister Han Duck-soo speaks during a Friday meeting of the Central Disaster Management Headquarters at the Central Government Complex in Jongno District, Seoul, to address the ongoing junior doctors' strike. [YONHAP]

Only qualified foreign doctors will practice in Korea, assures prime minister

Prime Minister Han Duck-soo said Friday that the government will ensure that only qualified foreign doctors can practice in Korea in response to outrage from the medical community over a proposal to bring in medical practitioners from overseas.

2024.5.10

Kim Sung-keun, head of the press at the emergency committee of the Korean Medical Association, speaks at a press briefing held in Yongsan District, central Seoul, on Friday. [YONHAP]

KMA tells gov't to scrap med school quota hike, accept 'public's judgment' after election

The Korean Medical Association (KMA) on Friday urged the government to promptly scrap its plan for a medical school quota hike, stressing the election results were the public's judgment against the scheme.

2024.4.12

Health Minister Cho Kyoo-hong speaks during a forum hosted by the Korea News Editors' Association in downtown Seoul on Wednesday. The forum was held to discuss the country's medical reforms amid the ongoing mass walkout of junior doctors who oppose the government's planned medical recruitment hike. [YONHAP]

Health minister doubles down on medical school quota hike

Health Minister Cho Kyoo-hong on Wednesday reiterated the government’s hardline stance on increasing medical recruitment by 2,000 starting next year.

2024.3.20