SEOUL, Aug. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — An association of trainee doctors across South Korea agreed Sunday to participate in medical services to respond to COVID-19, a decision made in its leaders’ meeting with Prime Minister Chung Sye-kyun, according to Chung’s office. Interns and residents have gone on strike to protest the government’s medical workforce reform [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — Thousands of trainee doctors in South Korea went on strike Friday to protest the government’s plan to increase the number of medical students, drawing public criticism amid fears of nationwide spread of the new coronavirus. Trainee doctors have staged a limited strike since early this month after the government [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — Trainee doctors at hospitals on Friday launched a one-day strike in protest of the government’s medical workforce reform plan, but there was no major disruptions reported as hospitals mobilized alternative health workers. The Korean Intern Resident Association (KIRA), a group of interns and resident doctors, began the 24-hour walkout [...]
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, Jan. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Labor disputes are still posing a major hurdle for some of the country’s carmakers as they have yet to finish wage deals for the year of 2019 amid a still murky outlook, industry sources said Monday. Of the country’s five carmakers, Hyundai Motor Co. and SsangYong Motor Co. sealed [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — Renault Samsung Motors Corp. said Friday it has decided to partially shut down its sole plant in South Korea to reduce production losses resulting from strikes staged by its unionized workers. In the past 12 days, the union held partial strikes at the plant in Busan, 453 kilometers south [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — Unionized workers at Renault Samsung Motors Corp. on Tuesday voted to strike in protest against the company’s wage freeze proposal for the year. In a vote held at its sole Busan plant, 66 percent of the 2,000-member union agreed on industrial action for an increase in basic pay and [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — Unionized railway workers ended their no-time-limit strike Monday following a five-day walkout, as they reached a deal with the management over a pay raise and better working conditions. After marathon talks, the labor union and the Korea Railroad Corp. (KORAIL), the operator of train services, struck an agreement to [...]
DAEJEON/SEOUL, Nov. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — Calling for higher wages and more recruitment, railway workers across South Korea went on strike Wednesday, causing inconvenience for train passengers. Unionized workers kicked off a no-time-limit strike at 9 a.m., the first of such strike since a 74-day work stoppage from September to December in 2016. The collective [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — Union workers of a bus company in Goyang, west of Seoul, went on strike Tuesday after wage talks with management broke down. Myungsung Transportation’s more than 270 buses on 20 lines, including those linking Seoul and the satellite city in Gyeonggi Province, stopped operations. The union and management failed [...]