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South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol met the leader of a strike by thousands of junior doctors on Thursday and said that the government is open to talks about its contentious push to sharply increase medical school admissions. The meeting was the first of its kind since more than 90% of the country’s 13,000 trainee…

SEOUL - A much-heralded first meeting between South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol and a negotiator for young doctors who walked off the job in February appeared to have made little progress on Thursday (April 4) after the latter expressed pessimism on social media. Yoon's office said his first in-person talks lasted more than two hours, after he showed the...

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The president met with representatives of interns and residents amid an ongoing standoff that has disrupted the nation’s medical services

S. Korean president, strikes leader meet

Hopes for a breakthrough in the protracted medical standoff are fading after the meeting between President Yoon Suk Yeol and Park Dan, the head of the Korean Intern Resident Association, ended without agreement Thursday, with the two sides still far apart. Amid the prolonged impasse, Prime Minister Han Duck-soo said during Friday’s government response meeting that the government would continue to “communi...

A much-heralded first meeting between South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol and a negotiator for young doctors who walked off the job in February appeared to have made little progress on Thursday after the latter expressed pessimism on social media. Yoon's office said his first in-person talks lasted more than two hours, after he showed…

Park Dan, the head of a group of junior doctors, said Thursday that he would meet President Yoon Suk Yeol in the afternoon, two days after the president left the door open for talks with trainee doctors, saying he was willing to hear their voices. The two reportedly were set to meet at around 2 p.m. in the presidential office in Seoul, according to reports citing officials. The presidential office declined to confirm...

President Yoon Suk Yeol met Park Dan, head of the Korean Intern Resident Association (KIRA), Thursday, to explore ways to address the months-long walkout by junior doctors in protest against the governments push to increase the number of medical students.