Medical professors in South Korea on Monday (Mar 25) announced that they would reduce their practice hours in solidarity with trainee doctors who have been on strike for over a month.

South Korean medical professors join trainee doctors' strike against government plan

South Korea's Health Minister Cho Kyoo-hong, announced on Monday (Mar 4) that authorities would begin inspecting hospitals to take legal action against trainee doctors who have persisted in a walkout against government plans to increase medical school admissions even after the Feb 29 deadline.

South Korea threatens legal action against doctors protesting medical reforms

South Korea's Second Vice Health Minister Park Min-soo said on Thursday (Feb 29) that the government was seeking to hold its first talks with striking doctors as a deadline loomed for them to return to work or risk prosecution.

Striking South Korean doctors face threat of licence cancellation amid prospects of talks

South Korea granted nurses new powers and legal protections Tuesday, and launched an investigation into a patient’s death, as hospital chaos caused by striking trainee doctors entered a second week.

South Korea: Military doctors to be assigned to hospitals amid doctor's walkout

South Korea's government has threatened to arrest thousands of striking junior doctors and revoke their medical licences if they do not return to work on Thursday.

South Korean government seeks talks with protesting doctors | Military doctors to be deployed

A South Korean doctors' association has accused the government of employing intimidation tactics on Wednesday (Feb 28), just before the imminent deadline for almost 10,000 protesting trainee medical professionals to either return to work or face consequences.

Doctors’ association in South Korea accuses government of ‘intimidation’

South Korean doctors have continued their demonstrations against the government's plan to increase medical school admissions and at the center of this dispute is a recent government announcement that the colleges and the universities would admit 2,000 more medical students from the next academic year. Hundreds of senior doctors held a rally near the presidential office in Seoul. Watch to know more!