12,000 South Korean junior doctors on strike, risking a one-year delay in fellowships, protest government's plan to increase medical student numbers.
South Korea's junior doctors on strike, numbering around 12,000, face a one-year delay in obtaining medical fellowships if they don't return to work by the end of the week. The doctors, protesting the government's decision to increase medical student numbers, have disrupted public health services at major hospitals. The Seoul High Court is set to deliver a verdict on an injunction seeking to halt the government's plan to increase the medical school quota by 2,000.
May 13, 2024
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