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SEOUL: South Korea is set to fully shift to an “endemic” approach to the Covid-19 pandemic, lifting some last-remaining mandates, including indoor mas...

South Korea is set to fully shift to an "endemic" approach to the Covid-19 pandemic, lifting some last-remaining mandates, including indoor mask requirements for hospitals, from next month, officials said on Friday.The health ...

The Korean government on Thursday broke its silence on its medical student quota expansion plan after over a week of maintaining a low profile following the ruling party's major election defeat, stoking hopes that it could possibly end the monthslong tug-of-war with the medical circle. The government announced plans to resume Central Disaster and Safety Countermeasures Headquarters meetings involving officials f...

Taiwan has been struck by its most powerful earthquake in decades

Some within the ruling party have called on the administration to go further than dialogue and to hold renewed discussions on the 2,000-student figure

The election of Lim Hyun-taek to the head of the Korean Medical Association is likely to embolden physicians in their protest of government policies aimed at increasing the number of doctors in Korea

Government reiterates former stance on increasing medical school admissions cap by 2,000

Medical students nationwide have resolved to request their schools grant leave of absence applications they filed in collective action protesting the governments plan to dramatica...

Health Minister Cho Kyoo-hong expressed deep concerns Tuesday over medical professors' decision to resign, regarding the ongoing confrontation by the government and striking trainee doctors, vowing efforts to seek a breakthrough. On Monday, medical school professors at Seoul National University resolved to submit resignations en masse next week if the government fails to present "a reasonable breakthrough&q...

Critical care patients in South Korea are bracing for another round of uncertainty as medical professors, who have been filling the vacuum left by junior doctors’ walkouts, warned of collective action in protest against the government’s expansion plan. The Medical Professors Association of Korea -- a coalition of professors from 33 medical schools -- issued a statement on Tuesday that it would take collec...