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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 ...