Patients in critical condition or with severe illnesses are being hit the hardest by the ongoing clash between the government and the medical sector over the medical school quota expansion. Patients hold both sides responsible for the medical crisis.
A patient in her 60s seeking help for chest pain in South Gyeongsang died last month while awaiting surgery after six nearby hospitals refused her admission, fire authorities said Wednesday.
President Yoon Suk Yeol on Wednesday called for a relentless and uncompromising government response to striking doctors who "take people’s lives hostage,” slamming ongoing walkouts as a “violation of the right to life."
The government on Tuesday said it is considering filing criminal complaints against trainee doctors who encouraged others to walk off their jobs in protest of the government’s plan to increase the enrollment quota at medical schools.
The Ministry of Health and Welfare said Wednesday that it had ordered 6,112 of the 8,816 trainee doctors who have left their posts at 100 major hospitals nationwide to return to work as of 10 p.m. Tuesday.
We need to liven the debate to find the optimal solution on free transit for the elderly.
Hundreds of thousands of teachers demanded the restoration of teachers’ rights and the normalization of public education during their regular mass rally on Saturday.
Chinese tour groups may flood the streets of Seoul from as early as Friday with China lifting its ban on group tours to Korea for the first time in six years.
A former British member of a United Nations panel on North Korea criticized Chinese and Russian members of the group for stymieing biannual reporting on sanctions against Pyongyang at a Friday press briefing organized by media outlet NK Pro.
President Yoon Suk Yeol urged the international community to strengthen cooperation to choke off illegal funding of North Korea's nuclear and missile programs in his remarks to the Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI) forum Tuesday.
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