SEOUL, Dec. 11 (Korea Bizwire) – In a landmark ruling, South Korea’s Supreme Court has determined that allowances paid to nurses and clinical pathologists for “on-call duty” can only be considered part of their regular wages if they can prove they were under the hospital’s direct supervision and control during that time. The decision overturns [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 10 (Korea Bizwire) – Seven months after the South Korean government launched a pilot program to clarify nurses’ responsibilities, about 30% of nurses still report feeling anxious due to ambiguous job scopes, according to a recent survey. Representative Kang Sun-woo of the Democratic Party of Korea revealed these findings on October 9, based on [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — Most nurses and medical workers called off their planned strike Thursday after reaching last-minute wage deals, hospital officials said, easing concerns over public health services that have been strained by a protracted walkout by trainee doctors. The Korean Health and Medical Workers’ Union (KHMU), which represents some 30,000 nurses [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — A nurse who committed suicide after struggling with an excessive workload caused by COVID-19 has been recognized by the court as having died on duty. The Seoul Administrative Court recently ruled in favor of the family of the late nurse, who sued the Minister of Personnel Management. The nurse, [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — A nursing assistant has been arrested for performing plastic surgery on more than 1,000 patients at a Seoul clinic for three years, police said Thursday. The assistant, identified only as a 70-year-old man, is accused of posing as a plastic surgeon to perform more than 1,500 plastic surgery procedures [...]
PYEONGTAEK, Jun. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — An auxiliary nurse from a clinic in Pyeongtaek, the region at the epicenter of the MERS virus outbreak, shared her story of what it feels like to be isolated at home for treatment to prevent the further spread of the virus. After a patient who visited the clinic where [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 29 (Korea Bizwire) – The South Korean government encourages women to give birth a lot, but many pregnant women in Korea have actually received unfair treatment in their workplaces. In particular, Korean nurses should have a child in sequence. The Korea Health and Medical Workers’ Union published a report surveying 1,826 medical workers from [...]