Seoul’s intracity bus drivers returned to work on Thursday afternoon, ending their 11-hour strike over a wage hike.
Seoul's largest hospitals are closing inpatient wards to cut operating costs, mainly due to snowballing debt caused by reducing medical appointments amid junior doctors’ walkout.
Seoul’s intracity bus services resumed Thursday afternoon as the drivers on strike and management reached a wage agreement.
Seoul’s bus labor union held its final negotiations with management on Wednesday, a day ahead of its planned general strike.
Seoul's bus labor union agreed on Tuesday to go on strike this week, after failing to reach an agreement with the metropolitan government over wage hikes.
Seoul’s bus labor union may go on strike on Thursday following failures to reach an agreement with the city government on wage hikes.
President Yoon Suk Yeol said Sunday his administration will work with the conservative People Power Party (PPP) to devise “flexible measures” to deal with the doctors’ strike after the PPP leader met with representatives of medical school professors.
The International Labour Organization (ILO) dismissed the junior doctors' intervention petition as the Korean government inches toward suspending the doctors' licenses.
Health Minister Cho Kyoo-hong on Wednesday reiterated the government’s hardline stance on increasing medical recruitment by 2,000 starting next year.
Professors at 16 medical schools have decided to resign starting March 25 over the government's obstinate stance on raising the medical school enrollment quota.
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