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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.
The government wants to increase South Korea’s medical school enrollment quota by 2,000 starting next year, from the current 3,058, to better deal with the country’s rapidly aging population.
He said that more than 400 emergency medical treatment centers across South Korea will stay open around the clock. He said the government will deploy military doctors if the situation worsens.
South Korea's government announced Monday it will abandon its plan to suspend the licenses of striking junior doctors as part of its efforts to convince them to return to work and resolve the ...
6 February – Ministry of Health and Welfare Cho Kyu-hong says that the number of medical students will increase by 2,000 from 2025, marking the first time since 1998 that the number of medical students will be expanded. The Korea Medical Association warns that it would go on a nationwide walkout if the government pushes for expanding the ...
2024 South Korean doctors' strike → 2024 South Korean medical crisis – (1) "Crisis" is much used in both mass media and academic sources. (2) Precision: This involves not only trainee doctors, but also great number of med students.
Under South Korea's national health insurance system, hospitals can only receive a fixed fee for "essential" medical care from patients, but the fees set by the government were often so low they ...
Great Workers' Struggle, mass wave of strikes in South Korea in 1987 demanding better working conditions and autonomous unions, inspired by the June Democratic Struggle. [3] 1988 Hyundai strike, 24-day strike by Hyundai Group workers in South Korea. [4] [5] 1988–89 Hyundai strike, 3-month strike by Hyundai workers in South Korea. [6] [7]