SEOUL, Feb. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — A total of 6,415 trainee doctors at 100 hospitals have submitted their resignations in protest of the government’s plan to boost the number of medical students, the health ministry said Tuesday. Second Vice Health Minister Park Min-soo told reporters that the ministry ordered 757 trainee doctors to return to [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — The military plans to open its hospital emergency rooms to the public if doctors stage a massive walkout against the government’s plan to increase medical school admissions, the defense ministry said Monday. Thousands of trainee doctors were set to submit their resignations en masse later in the day in [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean Prime Minister Han Duck-soo on Sunday called for doctors to refrain from taking collective action amid their looming strike in protest of the government’s decision to raise medical school enrollment seats. Doctors have warned of a massive strike and other responses in opposition to the government’s decision [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — Trainee doctors at major general hospitals in Seoul were set to submit their letters of collective resignation Monday, in an escalation of their protest against the government’s plan to boost the number of medical students. Concerns have been brewing as doctors warn of a large-scale strike and other responses [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — Prime Minister Han Duck-soo said Monday that the government will fully expand telemedicine services if doctors walk off their jobs in protest of the government’s plan to increase medical school admissions. Thousands of trainee doctors, such as residents at Seoul’s five major general hospitals, were poised to submit their [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — The health ministry on Friday ordered 221 training hospitals to ban mass leave and maintain essential medical personnel, as trainee doctors decided to submit their letters of collective resignations in protest of a plan to boost the number of medical students. The order came hours after trainee doctors of [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — Trainee doctors of five major general hospitals in Seoul have decided to submit their letters of resignation en masse Monday, in a move certain to intensify their strike threat over a plan to boost the number of medical students, a group of trainee doctors has said. Friday’s decision came [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — Seniors at a medical school vowed Thursday to take a one-year leave of absence en masse in protest of the government’s plan to raise the enrollment quota of medical schools. The fourth-year students of the college of medicine at Hallym University in the eastern city of Chuncheon unanimously agreed [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — In the quiet town of Miryang, South Korea, a determined group of elderly women, colloquially known as the “Miryang Grandmothers,” have become synonymous with a relentless campaign against the construction of power transmission towers. This year marks the 19th anniversary of their struggle, which began in 2005 when the government [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Seoul’s education chief began a one-person protest Wednesday to oppose the abolition of a student rights ordinance. Cho Hee-yeon, superintendent of the Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education, embarked on the protest on Gwanghwamun Square in downtown Seoul on Wednesday morning and plans to continue the demonstration for eight days [...]