Telemedicine hits record 2.69 million consultations as December switchover nears Korea’s telemedicine consultations hit a record number as the service nears permanent status, with key rules on eligibility and prescriptions still unresolved. 2026.8.11
Doctors' group slams proposal to disclose physicians' malpractice records: 'Who would treat patients?' Medical groups warn that a proposal to let patients review doctors' malpractice and misconduct records could deepen defensive medicine and strain essential care. 2026.8.1
Is a breakthrough finally in sight in Korea's longest ever doctors' strike? Nearly a year and a half after junior doctors resigned en masse and medical students boycotted their classes to protest the government's hike of the med school admissions quota, a breakthrough is in sight. 2025.7.17
Korean Medical Association joins in cries calling for Yoon's resignation The largest doctors’ group in Korea on Thursday publicly demanded President Yoon Suk Yeol resign, showing heightened rhetoric compared to its previous demand for an official apology. 2024.12.5
Medical groups call on government to stop prosecuting 'blacklist' creator Medical associations demanded over the weekend that the government cease its efforts to prosecute a junior doctor who created a so-called blacklist of trainees who have refused to join a mass walkout by their colleagues. 2024.9.22
Gov't to invest additional 5 trillion won in medical schools as admissions rise The Education Ministry announced Tuesday that the government plans to invest an additional 5 trillion won ($3.7 billion) in medical schools over six years to help them cope with the planned hike in annual admissions. 2024.9.10
Medical association's PR chief grilled over inciting doctors' strike Police on Thursday summoned Joo Soo-ho, former head of the Korean Medical Association (KMA)'s public relations committee, to investigate allegations that he helped incite a doctors' walkout during his term. 2024.7.25
Health Ministry threatens 'stern response' to upcoming KMA-led doctors' strike The Health Ministry warned on Thursday that medical professors and doctors who participate in the one-day walkout next week could face a “stern response” from authorities if the strike results in cancellations and delays in patient care. 2024.6.13
Doctors urge universities to delay publication of medical school admission hikes Medical professors and doctors on Monday asked universities to postpone the announcement of detailed admissions plans until the nation’s top court rules on the legitimacy of the medical recruitment expansion. 2024.5.27
High court dismisses doctors' appeal, greenlights medical school quota hike An appellate court on Thursday denied doctors' request to halt the expansion of medical school admissions quotas, enabling the Yoon Suk Yeol administration’s medical reform initiative to continue. 2024.5.16
![From left: Democratic Party (DP) Rep. Park Ju-min, Lee Sun-woo, interim leader of the Korean Medical Student Association, Kim Taek-woo, chief of the Korean Medical Association and DP Rep. Kim Young-ho deliver their joint statement on medical students' return to their schools in central Seoul on July 12. [NEWS1]](https://image.koreajoongangdaily.com/11947647.jpg?imageId=11947647&width=240&height=184&format=webp&format=jpg)
![Park Hyoung-wook, chairperson of the emergency steering committee at the Korean Medical Association, speaks during a briefing at the group's headquarters in central Seoul on Thursday. [YONHAP]](https://image.koreajoongangdaily.com/12436510.jpg?imageId=12436510&width=240&height=184&format=webp&format=jpg)
![A junior doctor, identified only by his surname Jeong, is escorted by police out of the Seoul Central District Court in Seocho District, southern Seoul, after attending his arrest warrant review on Friday. The court later approved an arrest warrant against Jeong, who is accused of compiling a list of junior doctors who have not joined their colleagues' mass walkout to protest the government's plan to increase annual medical recruitment. [NEWS1]](https://image.koreajoongangdaily.com/12428830.jpg?imageId=12428830&width=240&height=184&format=webp&format=jpg)
![A patient and its guardian walk behind ambulances, which are lined up in front of a general hospital in Seoul on Tuesday. [NEWS1]](https://image.koreajoongangdaily.com/10641712.jpg?imageId=10641712&width=240&height=184&format=webp&format=jpg)
![Joo Soo-ho, former head of the public relations committee at the Korean Medical Association, speaks to reporters on his way to attend a police questioning session at the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency’s regional investigation unit in Mapo District, western Seoul, on Thursday. [NEWS1]](https://image.koreajoongangdaily.com/12136940.jpg?imageId=12136940&width=240&height=184&format=webp&format=jpg)
![The Korea Severe Disease Association and other patients’ groups hold up placards calling on doctors to cancel a nationwide strike planned for June 18 during a protest in front of the National Assembly on Thursday. [YONHAP]](https://image.koreajoongangdaily.com/12450231.jpg?imageId=12450231&width=240&height=184&format=webp&format=jpg)
![Prof. Cho Yun-jung from Korea University’s College of Medicine speaks during a joint press conference hosted by the Korean Medical Association and Medical Professors Association of Korea on Monday in Yongsan District, central Seoul. The banner behind the professor says that the press conference aims to 'block the destruction of medical education.' [NEWS1]](https://image.koreajoongangdaily.com/12158082.jpg?imageId=12158082&width=240&height=184&format=webp&format=jpg)
![The Seoul High Court in Seocho District, southern Seoul on Thursday [YONHAP]](https://image.koreajoongangdaily.com/12481407.jpg?imageId=12481407&width=240&height=184&format=webp&format=jpg)