SEOUL, Feb. 23 (Korea Bizwire) – While South Koreans’ quality of life has seen some improvement, the country continues to rank near the bottom among OECD member nations in terms of life satisfaction. According to a recent report from Statistics Korea, the life satisfaction score for South Koreans in 2022 was 6.5, a slight increase of [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Nearly 80 percent of trainee doctors nationwide have submitted resignations and over 7,800 doctors walked off the job to protest a plan to raise the medical school enrollment quota, leading to the government’s issuance of the highest health alert amid an exacerbating medical system crisis. Intern and resident doctors [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — The government raised its four-scale health care service crisis gauge to the highest level of “serious” Friday in response to the departure of doctors in their collective action against the planned increase in the medical school admission quota. In an effort to alleviate the growing strain on the medical [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 22 (Korea Bizwire) – A work stoppage by trainee doctors grew Thursday in spite of the government’s warning of taking legal action against their collective action in protest of a plan to boost the number of medical students. Major general hospitals in Seoul and elsewhere struggled to cope with patients as a confrontation [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — Major general hospitals in Seoul and elsewhere struggled to cope with patients Thursday, as thousands of trainee doctors left their worksites for the third day in a row in protest of a plan to boost the number of medical students. A confrontation between doctors and the government over the [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — Subway operations in Seoul suffered delays Thursday due to heavy snowfall. The overnight snowfall caused ice to form on railway tracks at a train depot at the eastern end of the Seoul Subway Line No. 5 in Godeok-dong, preventing trains from leaving the depot on time, officials at Seoul [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 22 (Korea Bizwire) – Duksung Women’s University is currently facing opposition from its community members due to its plans to discontinue the German Literature and French Literature departments starting from the academic year 2025. The decision, primarily based on the departments’ waning popularity, has sparked fears of accelerating the crisis in humanities, as similar [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 21 (Korea Bizwire) – An increase in expectant mothers receiving notifications about the unavailability of epidural anesthesia and delays in scheduled deliveries has been reported in South Korea, following a mass submission of resignation letters by residents at major hospitals. Starting from February 19, Yonsei Severance Hospital announced to expectant mothers that epidural anesthesia [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — A civic group filed a complaint Wednesday against trainee doctors, who have collectively resigned over the planned hike in medical school enrollment quotas, and leaders of a doctors’ association, asking police to investigate them for violating the medical and other laws. The group, which calls itself the People’s Livelihood [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 21 (Korea Bizwire) – More than 70 percent of trainee doctors have submitted their resignations in protest of a plan to boost the number of medical students, officials said Wednesday, with the government ordering about 6,000 of them to return to work. Concerns have heightened as doctors and the government were in a [...]