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Nursing hospital amputation case raises red flags — and larger questions

Procedure done with scissors, no anesthesia revealed systemic blind spots, including finding care and navigating liability for older high-risk patients with chronic conditions.

2026.6.25

A resident surnamed Gong, who has a severe brain lesion disability and lives alone in an officetel in Jung District, Incheon, watches TV in his home on March 13. [BYUN MIN-CHUL]

Over 10,000 need 24-hour care, but their 'scores' are too low and government budgets too small

More than 10,000 people with severe disabilities in Korea do not receive the 24-hour personal assistance they need, according to government data, with experts attributing the limited access to inconsistent eligibility criteria and limited budgets.

2026.4.3

Patience is needed to ease patients’ pain

Their war of nerves must stop here.

2024.9.8

How long will it last?

Despite the deepening pain of patients due to the medical crisis, the government and the medical community can’t untie the knot as their ongoing standoff suggests.

2024.9.1

How to end the deep-rooted medical practice (KOR)

The government has announced a plan to improve the current medical service delivery structure toward the direction of encouraging large hospitals to concentrate on patients with serious illnesses or emergency patients. It plans...

2024.7.12

How to end the deep-rooted medical practice

2024.7.11

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

Patients' groups demand end to strikes, legal protections

Patients and their families shed tears during a rally calling for an end to doctors' strikes and legal protections to prevent a future medical staffing vacuums in front of Bosingak, a bell pavilion in central Seoul, on Thursday.

2024.7.4

Protesters rally to demand legislation of a bill to prevent medical staffing vacuums in front of Bosingak, a bell pavilion in Jongno District, central Seoul, on Thursday morning. [KIM JONG-HO]

Patients' groups take to the streets to slam striking doctors, gov't policy

Around 400 patients and their families demanded an immediate halt of untenable strikes and the swift normalization of health services during a rally in downtown Seoul on Thursday.