SEOUL, March 31 (Korea Bizwire) — Students at nearly half of medical schools across the country returned to class as the government-imposed deadline for reinstatement is set to expire Monday, according to educational sources. Among 40 medical schools nationwide, 19 had all of its students, who have been on leave of absence en masse, complete [...]
SEOUL, July 4 (Korea Bizwire) — A court on Monday dismissed a lawsuit filed by a group of doctors who claimed that graduates of Hungarian medical schools are ineligible for the nation’s state-run medical licensing exam. The Seoul Administrative Court rejected the lawsuit filed by a medical group called Doctors for Fair Society against the [...]
SEOUL, June 19 (Korea Bizwire) — Medical schools in Hungary are gaining the spotlight as an alternative route to obtain a doctor’s license without graduating from a medical school in South Korea. A total of 409 individuals who graduated from foreign medical schools took the medical licensing examination in South Korea between 2001 and 2023, [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — The rising popularity of medical schools is leading to concern that they are becoming ‘black holes’ for depriving other fields of outstanding workers. Since 2006, only 3,058 students have been accepted into South Korean medical schools every year. The competition among top-tier students to enter medical school, therefore, has [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — A substantial number of South Koreans are in favor of the policy to increase the number of medical doctors and establish public medical schools, a survey showed Tuesday. The Seoul National University Hospital conducted an online survey of 2,097 people aged from 19 to 68 to arrive at this [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — A group of doctors in training has threatened to stage a strike later this week in protest against a health care workforce reform plan that centers on raising the admission quotas at medical schools, sparking concerns about its impact on the country’s health care service. The health ministry plans [...]
SEOUL, July 23 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea will increase the admission quotas at medical schools and establish a new public medical school in a bid to broaden the reach of health care services, lawmakers and government officials said Thursday. The decision was confirmed earlier in the day during a policy coordination meeting between the [...]