SEOUL, Jul. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — Senior doctors at Asan Medical Center, one of the five biggest hospitals in Seoul, said Wednesday they will cut procedures and outpatient care starting Thursday, blaming the government for causing disruptions in public health services in the wake of medical reform. Medical professors at the University of Ulsan, who [...]
SEOUL, May 16 (Korea Bizwire) – The average annual salary for doctors in South Korea surpassed 300 million won in 2022, according to government data on physician workforce and wages released on May 14. The data, submitted by the Ministry of Health and Welfare to the Seoul High Court on May 10, represents the latest official [...]
SANCHEONG, Jan. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — A farming town with populations of less than 40,000 is coming up short in its search for new doctors. Sancheong County in South Gyeongsang Province sought to recruit doctors specializing in internal medicine in November and December last year for its public health clinic, but there haven’t been any [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — As interest grows in healthcare workers due to the spread of the coronavirus, a growing number of South Korean elementary school students say they want to be doctors when they grow up. The Ministry of Education and the Korea Research Institute for Vocational Education and Training conducted an online [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — Civic activists, patient advocates and some ruling party lawmakers on Friday urged the National Assembly to speed up legislation on mandatory installation of surveillance cameras in hospital operating rooms to help prevent medical accidents. Activists from patient groups, bereaved families of medical malpractice victims and two lawmakers from the [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Roughly 25 percent of people who recently earned a Ph.D. in South Korea are unemployed, a recent survey revealed. However, the proportion of graduates who receive relatively high annual salaries has increased slightly. According to a survey conducted by Statistics Korea, of 9,313 new Ph.D. holders in 2019, 25.2 [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s medical community on Thursday mourned the sudden death of a doctor who spent his life enhancing the country’s emergency medical services. The Korean Society of Emergency Medicine issued a statement earlier in the day expressing great shock and sadness at the passing of Yoon Han-deok, the head [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — An obstetrician who ordered a nurse to act on his behalf via the popular messaging app KakaoTalk, including giving an injection, was not found guilty on charges of criminal negligence. Even though the doctor was responsible for the care of the patient, his negligence put the fetus into serious [...]
SEOUL, May 4 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea will be confronted with a severe shortage of medical sector workers in the coming years as demand for health care services exceeds supply, a local report said Wednesday. In the report on the long-term outlook for medical service personnel, the Korea Institute for Health and Social Affairs [...]
LYNDHURST, N.J., Jun. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — The practice of medicine requires extensive training and relies on hard science. And yet, the attributes valued most by patients when rating and reviewing their doctors are more often those softer measures not taught in medical school. The Vitals Index analyzed 1,000 recent reviews of doctors by their [...]