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The 2024 South Korean medical crisis is an ongoing healthcare crisis following the announcement of new government policies that would significantly increase medical student admission quotas. Thousands of residents and interns have since resigned, resulting in medical school professors working to cover.
March 5, 2024 at 8:34 PM. ... Joo Soo-ho, a spokesperson for the emergency committee of the Korean Medical Association's (KMA), attended a police station in Seoul on Wednesday morning, an official ...
South Korea will move quickly to improve pay and working conditions for young doctors, the government said on Friday, tackling a key demand by medical trainees who have walked off the job, but ...
The government plans to raise medical school admissions by 2,000 students for the 2025 academic year and to add 10,000 doctors by 2035. Currently, about 3,000 students enter medical schools each year.
24 July – A balloon from North Korea carrying rubbish lands on the Presidential Residence in Yongsan, Seoul. [50] July 26–August 11 – South Korea at the 2024 Summer Olympics: The South Korean Olympic delegation wins 13 gold, nine silver, and ten bronze medals and places 8th out of 84 countries competing at the 2024 Summer Olympics in ...
In August 2020, in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic with cases increasing in Korea, the Association organised a 3-day strike and its Korean Intern and Resident Association indefinite strike [4] in protest of the government's plan to increase the number of doctors over the next decade [5] [6] rejecting the government's return-to-work order. [7]
SEOUL (Reuters) -South Korea on Thursday declared a special emergency medical response period for two weeks in September and said it would use all available resources to ensure services, as a ...
The 2024 South Korean protests are an ongoing series of protests demanding the resignation of South Korean president Yoon Suk Yeol. Protests started when Yoon declared martial law over the country. They subsided when Yoon declared that the martial law was over on December 4, but resumed on the same day.