The government on Monday underscored its determination to carry out its medical reform, stating that “scrapping the current scheme or postponing medical schools' admissions hike for a year is out of perspective."
Ruling People Power Party (PPP) interim chief Han Dong-hoon offered to resign following his party's defeat in the general election on Thursday morning.
The number of civil servant resignees who worked under five years surged more than double in five years, according to a report by the National Assembly Research Service received from the Government Employees Pension Service.
Ambassador to Australia Lee Jong-sup expressed his intention to resign to Foreign Minister Cho Tae-yul, Lee said Friday.
Health Minister Cho Kyoo-hong on Monday “welcomed” a medical professors’ group's position, saying they are “ready to have constructive dialogue with the government.”
Professors at three leading medical schools resolved to resign en masse to protest the government's intent to punish junior doctors who have remained on strike in objection to the medical recruitment expansion plan.
Korea is at a critical juncture in its standoff between doctors and the government, as professorial medical doctors will decide whether to resign en masse by Friday.
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.
The head of Korea's state-run film council announced Monday that he would resign as the local industry struggles to recover from the pandemic, aggravated by the government's budget cut for 2024.
Atletico Madrid head coach Diego Simeone showed respect for Jurgen Klopp’s great career at Liverpool & said he understand his decision.
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