SEOUL, Mar. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — Health Minister Cho Kyoo-hong said Monday relevant ministries have swiftly begun work to hold talks with the medical community, a day after President Yoon Suk Yeol called for a “flexible” measure over the government’s move to suspend licenses of defiant trainee doctors. Prospects of talks between the government and [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — Prime Minister Han Duck-soo said Friday that the government will deploy additional military surgeons and public health doctors to help cope with the prolonged walkout by junior doctors. Over 90 percent of the country’s 13,000 junior doctors have been on mass resignations for more than a month, protesting against [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 22 (Korea Bizwire) – As the South Korean government finalizes plans to increase enrollment at medical schools by 2,000 students, a leading voice in the medical community has sounded the alarm about a potential exodus of aspiring doctors disillusioned with the changes. “Many residents are preparing for medical licensing exams in the United States [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — The health ministry said Thursday it will begin suspending medical licenses of trainee doctors who have defied a return-to-work order from next week, as the government pushed ahead with its plan to hike the number of medical students. A monthlong walkout by trainee doctors in protest of the hike [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — The International Labour Organization (ILO) has dismissed a request by striking South Korean trainee doctors for intervention in the government’s back-to-work order, concluding that they are not recognized as a labor union eligible for the process, officials said Thursday. The labor ministry revealed the development after the Korean Intern [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — The government was set to announce Wednesday the allocation of an additional 2,000 medical school admission seats even as the biggest doctors’ group threatens to launch a general strike to protest the quota hike. Education Minister Lee Ju-ho is expected to make the announcement in the afternoon following a [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — Leaders of the Korean Medical Association (KMA), the country’s biggest doctors’ group, appeared before police on Wednesday for another round of questioning over suspicions of instigating a mass walkout by trainee doctors. Joo Soo-ho, the chief KMA spokesperson, and Park Myung-ha, the group’s organization consolidation chief, arrived at the [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — Health Minister Cho Kyoo-hong on Monday expressed grave concerns about a decision by medical professors to resign en masse in support of junior doctors’ walkout that has crippled medical services for nearly a month. About 90 percent of 13,000 interns and resident doctors have stayed off the job since [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — Health Minister Cho Kyoo-hong on Friday made a last-minute appeal for medical professors not to resign en masse in support of a prolonged walkout by junior doctors, as their threat to resign is expected to further disrupt services at major hospitals. More than 90 percent of the country’s 13,000 [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — A leader of the Korean Medical Association (KMA), the biggest doctors’ group, appeared before police Thursday for his second round of questioning over suspicions of instigating a mass walkout by trainee doctors. Park Myung-ha, chief of the KMA emergency committee’s organizational affairs, arrived at the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency’s [...]