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Anxiety is mounting in South Korea’s largest hospitals, now starting to buckle under the absence of thousands of doctors who are on strike.

AsiaToday reporters Seol So-young, Park Joo-yeon, Kim Seo-yoon, and Hong Sum-miPatients waiting for urgent surgeries or treatment for serious diseases..

Hospitals across the country were plunged into chaos, as surgeries were delayed and appointments canceled, following the resignation of 6,415 junior doctors by Tuesday to protest t...

More than 70 percent of trainee doctors have submitted their resignations in protest of a plan to boost the number of medical students, officials said Wednesday, with the governmen...

Thousands of trainee doctors at South Korea's biggest hospitals joined a walkout on Wednesday to protest a plan to admit more students to medical school, disrupting treatment for scores of patients, health authorities said. The government wants to increase medical school admissions from 3,000 now to 5,000 from the 2025 academic year, and then add 10,000 more by 2035, in a bid to boost healthcare in remote areas and cope with the increasing demands of one of the world's most rapidly ag...

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AsiaToday reporter Lee Joon-youngThousands of trainee doctors have begun resigning en masse in protest against the government’s plan to boost the numb..

South Korean hospitals turned away some patients and delayed surgeries on Tuesday as hundreds of trainee doctors stopped working in a protest against medical training reforms.The government has ordered the doctors back to work, and police have warned of arrests for instigators of the work stoppages, as South Korean law limits the ability of medical staff to strike.

Trainee doctors in South Korea began resigning en masse Monday in protest of a government medical policy, causing reported delays in surgeries and other treatments at hospitals, though no major disruption in the country's medical service has yet occurred. Doctors’ groups and the government have been squabbling over a government plan to increase the number of medical school admissions by 2,000, starting from next year. Health authorities say it’s urgent to have more doctors c...

SEOUL, South Korea — Trainee doctors in South Korea began resigning en masse Monday, Feb. 19, 2024, in protest of a government medical policy, causing reported delays in surgeries and other treatments at hospitals, though no major disruption in the country’s medical service has yet occurred.