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If the government does not relent senior doctors at general hospitals will start to resign on April 25, and the healthcare system could “collapse”, Korean Medical Association says.

South Korea's leading doctors' body on Saturday rejected a revised medical reform plan from the government, the initial version of which sparked a strike two months ago.The main opposition Democratic Party has also criticised Yoon and urged him to revise the reform plan.

Rest of World News: South Korean doctors' association rejects government's medical reform plan amid ongoing strike. Government offers concession, but KMA demands plan aba

Rest of World News: South Korea's government on Friday offered its first concession to striking doctors in an effort to end a two-month-long walkout prompted by proposed

Rest of World News: South Korea's government offered its first concession to striking doctors on Friday in an effort to end a two-month-long walkout prompted by proposed

The government is ready to discuss with doctors about an increased quota in medical school admissions in an open manner if they come up with a unified and more reasonable measure, Health Minister Cho Kyoo-hong said Monday.

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.

SEOUL (Reuters) -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 the first signs of flexibility in an approach until now marked by a hardline attitude, as crucial parliament elections approach next week. ...

A major lobby group of community doctors on Wednesday welcomed an offer by President Yoon Suk Yeol for talks with trainee doctors, reacting positively to a possible meeting between...

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