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Health Minister Cho Kyoo-hong on Thursday urged doctors to join a special committee to seek a compromise over a protracted standoff against the medical reform, while the new head of the doctors group pledged to pressure the government to abandon the reform.

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Despite growing fatigue among the public and doctors still in hospitals, the government and trainee doctors don’t seem any closer to reaching a compromise

The medical community appears to be facing a rift over coming up with a unified proposal for the expansion plan a day after the government requested it, as it seeks a breakthrough in the prolonged medical standoff through dialogue. Lim Hyun-taek, the newly appointed president of the Korean Medical Association -- the largest coalition of doctors’ groups here, with some 140,000 members -- demanded Kim Taek-woo, t...

Presidential office denies deferring South Korea’s medical student hike Asia News Network (ANN) is the leading regional alliance of news titles striving to bring the region closer, through an active sharing of editorial content on happenings in the region.

A doctors' lobby group said Tuesday it was canceling a planned joint press conference with other doctors' groups and medical professors, amid signs of an apparent rift within the medical community over how to respond to the government's plan to increase the medical student quota. The Korean Medical Association made the announcement, saying they need more time for negotiations with the trainee doctors w...

Suggesting a shift in its adamant stance over the medical student quota, the Korean government said Monday it was ready for talks “open-mindedly” with doctors, urging the medical community to bring in proposals based on scientific evidence and logic. “(The decision) to add 2,000 new slots in the medical school enrollment quota was determined through scientific research examined carefully. (But) to r...

The government and doctors are signaling apparent willingness to move toward negotiations to find a breakthrough in their protracted confrontation over the policy to raise the number of medical students by 2,000 next year.

A major doctors' association on Sunday assessed positively the recent meeting between President Yoon Suk Yeol and the chief of a striking trainee doctors' group despite criticism by some striking doctors, repeating its call on the government to withdraw its medical school quota hike plan. Last week, Yoon met with Park Dan, the head of an emergency committee at the Korea Intern Resident Association, to discu...

SEOUL, April 7 (Yonhap) -- Prime Minister Han Duck-soo said Sunday the government remains ...