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 [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 13 (Yonhap) — The health ministry chided medical professors Wednesday for moving to resign in support of a mass walkout by junior doctors that has disrupted public health services for more than three weeks. More than 90 percent of the country’s 13,000 trainee doctors walked off the job in the form of mass [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Prime Minister Han Duck-soo said Wednesday the government’s decision to increase the medical school enrollment quota by 2,000 to address the shortage of doctors was based on scientific analysis. Over 90 percent of the country’s 13,000 junior doctors have been on mass resignations for nearly a month, protesting against [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Medical students nationwide have resolved to request their schools grant leave of absence applications they filed in collective action protesting the government’s plan to dramatically raise the medical school enrollment quota, their association said Wednesday. The Korean Medical Student Association said the decision was unanimously reached during a plenary [...]