SEOUL, Jun. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Any illegal acts related to the collective action by doctors will be dealt with sternly, the government said Thursday, as medical professors and community doctors plan to stage walkouts in protest against the medical school quota hike. The Korea Medical Association (KMA), the biggest doctors’ group, plans a one-day [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — Trainee doctors who left their worksites for months in protest of the government’s medical reform were seen as mostly lukewarm to plans by the government to allow them to seek other career paths or return to hospitals without legal burdens, according to some junior doctors Wednesday. In an apparent [...]
SEOUL, June 4 (Korea Bizwire) — The health ministry is expected to announce a plan Tuesday to accept the resignations of trainee doctors, a source close to the matter said, in a move to help them seek other career paths or return to hospitals. For months, the government has ordered trainee doctors, who have remained [...]
SEOUL, May 31 (Korea Bizwire) — The health ministry said Friday it will provide more financial support for trainee doctors and begin a trial operation to reduce their working hours, amid protracted walkouts prompted by a plan that boosted the number of medical students. Deputy Health Minister Jun Byung-wang told reporters that the pilot program [...]
SEOUL, May 29 (Korea Bizwire) – In a powerful display of their demands, around 20,000 nurses (according to organizers) gathered in front of the National Assembly in Seoul on May 23, raising their voices for the enactment of a separate nursing law. After resident doctors left hospitals in protest of the government’s plan to increase medical [...]
SEJONG, May 27 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s health ministry said Monday it plans to continue efforts to resolve the ongoing discord with doctors following the finalization of the university admission plan, which includes the controversial medical school quota hike, last week. The remark came after the Korean Council for University Education, an association of [...]
SEOUL, May 20 (Korea Bizwire) — Health Minister Cho Kyoo-hong called for junior doctors who left worksites for months to return to hospitals by Monday, while urging the medical community to resolve a protracted standoff over the government’s medical reform through dialogue. The latest appeal by Cho came as a Seoul appellate court last week [...]
SEOUL, May 17 (Korea Bizwire) — A recent court ruling against striking doctors will likely accelerate the government’s push to markedly raise medical school admissions, but doctors have vowed not to back down to continue a standoff despite deepening chaos in the health care system. On Thursday, the Seoul High Court rejected a request from [...]
SEOUL, May 16 (Korea Bizwire) — An appellate court in Seoul was to deliver a critical ruling Thursday that would determine the fate of the government’s highly contested plan to increase the nationwide medical school admission quota, officials said. The Seoul High Court will issue a ruling at around 5 p.m. on an injunction filed [...]
SEOUL, May 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Second Vice Health Minister Park Min-soo said Monday that junior doctors may face a one-year delay in getting medical fellowships unless they return to work by the end of this week. The prolonged walkouts by some 12,000 trainee doctors, who have left their worksites since Feb. 20 in protest [...]