Korea Joongang Daily
Korea JoongAng Daily

PPP forms consultative body to address trainee doctors' strike

The ruling People Power Party (PPP) on Monday launched a consultative body with the government and doctors' groups to resolve a prolonged walkout by trainee doctors, without participation from opposition parties.

2024-11-11

Major doctors' group votes to impeach embattled chief amid prolonged walkout

The largest Korean doctors' advocacy group voted Sunday to impeach its chief, holding him responsible for the poor responses to a prolonged walkout by junior doctors and various other controversies.

2024-11-10

Junior doctors, medical students grow skeptical over fruitless strike

Internal divisions appear to have emerged among junior doctors as their 10-month protest has resulted in little but mounting concern more than their careers.

2024-11-07

Student boycotts intensify as medical schools begin granting leave

Medical schools nationwide are approving or preparing to approve students’ leave requests after the Education Ministry gave them the freedom to do so earlier this week.

2024-10-31

Take a breather and resume dialogue

All stakeholders must join the consultative body or find other ways to start dialogue so that they prevent this protracted crisis from continuing in 2025.

2024-10-30

Gov't to allow med schools to grant students leave

The Education Ministry decided Tuesday to allow medical schools the freedom to grant academic leave requested by students, as most medical students have been boycotting classes for months in protest against the increase in the medical school quota.

2024-10-29

Debate between gov't, top medical school leaves chasm unbridged

The government and the nation's top medical school on Thursday could not resolve their differences during a debate on the physician shortage and the direction of medical reform.

2024-10-10

Health minister 'open' to shortening medical school education to five years

Health Minister Cho Kyoo-hong said on Monday that his agency has yet to be consulted about an Education Ministry plan to shorten medical school education from six years to five, but he is open to the idea.

2024-10-07

A government still detached from reality

The government still claims that it did nothing wrong.

2024-10-03

Gov't to invest $2.5 billion in critical patient treatment over five years

The government plans to invest 3.3 trillion won ($2.5 billion) annually into improving the treatment of critically ill patients at tertiary hospitals over the next five years.

2024-09-27