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A medical school in Seoul is pictured on July 17. [NEWS1]

Med school dropouts can return, ministry rules — but some may get extra exams

The Education Ministry allows medical students to return after boycotts, raising concerns over education quality and potential inequities.

2025.7.25

People walk outside a medical school in Daejeon on July 8. [KIM SUNG-TAE]

End to med student boycott in sight with announcement of return to classrooms

Medical students who boycotted classes in protest of the government's plan to increase medical school admissions announced Saturday they will return to school amid the prolonged medical impasse.

2025.7.13

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A wooden boat carrying North Koreans moves northward in the East Sea on July 9 in this photo provided by the Unification Ministry. [MINISTRY OF UNIFICATION]

Boat carrying repatriated North Koreans safely docks at port

A boat carrying six North Koreans, previously rescued by South Korean authorities, successfully docked in North Korea after their repatriation.

2025.7.10

A student walks across a medical school campus in downtown Seoul on May 9. [NEWS1]

61% of resigned medical trainees take up general practice ahead of recruitment deadline

As the deadline approaches for the additional May recruitment of medical residents who previously resigned from university hospitals, data shows that six out of 10 residents who have left their training are now employed as general practitioners.

2025.5.26

A doctor enters a professors' lab at a hospital in Seoul on Sunday. Professors at medical schools decided to submit resgination letters starting March 25 in solidarity with junior doctors who have been on a monthlong strike to protest the government's decision to increase the medical school enrollment quota by 2,000 starting next year. [YONHAP]

Medical school professors to resign en masse nationwide

Professors at 16 medical schools have decided to resign starting March 25 over the government's obstinate stance on raising the medical school enrollment quota.

2024.3.17

Soldiers walk near the emergency room of Armed Forces Hospital in Daejeon on Monday. The government dispatched 138 public health doctors and 20 military doctors to 20 general hospitals for four weeks from Monday to fill in for disrupted medical services. [KIM SEONG-TAE]

Gov't tells 5,000 junior doctors their licenses will be suspended

The government on Monday said that it had completed sending notices of medical license suspensions to nearly 5,000 junior doctors nationwide.

2024.3.11

Hospital staff take the escalators at a hospital in Seoul on Wednesday. [YONHAP]

[WHY] What's the big deal with becoming a doctor in Korea?

In Korea, to road to becoming a doctor is highly competitive, with students attending cram schools from a young age to prepare for med school. However, the trend is leading to a shortage of graduates in science and engineering, prompting concerns.

2024.2.23

A doctor massages his shoulder as he stands at a university hospital in Seoul on Friday. The government on the same day raised its national health crisis warning to the highest ″serious″ level as mass resignations of trainee doctors continued. [YONHAP]

Telemedicine services to be expanded as 'golden hour' of medical crisis looms

The government is widening access to virtual consultations and issuing the most severe crisis level as medical students continue to walk off the job over the pending hike in the med school enrollment quota.

2024.2.23

A doctor passes a medical center in downtown Seoul on Thursday. The Ministry of Health and Welfare said that a total of 9,275 trainee doctors across 100 major hospitals resigned as of 10 p.m. Wednesday. [NEWS1]

Anger grows over canceled surgeries, delayed treatments as doctors quit

Complaints from patients are growing this week over canceled or delayed surgeries as more trainee doctors in Korea resign to protest the government’s decision to increase medical school enrollment quotas.

2024.2.22

A patient in a wheelchair and a guardian wait in front of an emergency medical center in Seoul on Wednsday morning. Around 71 percent of interns and residents at 100 major hospitals nationwide submitted their resignation letters as of 10 p.m. Tuesday to protest the government's medical school enrollment quota hike. [YONHAP]

Trainee doctor resignations top 70 percent

The Ministry of Health and Welfare said Wednesday that it had ordered 6,112 of the 8,816 trainee doctors who have left their posts at 100 major hospitals nationwide to return to work as of 10 p.m. Tuesday.

2024.2.21