SEOUL, March 7 (Reuters) - South Korea's education ministry has agreed to freeze the number of new medical students at about 3,000 a year, it said on Friday, in a bid to end a 13-month dispute ...

South Korea's government will delay plans to increase medical school admissions to resolve a weeks-long doctor strike. The strike began in February after the government proposed recruiting 2,000 more ...

The Supreme Court of Korea dismissed an appeal on Thursday filed by doctors and medical professionals aiming to stop the South Korean government’s plan to increase the medical school admissions by up ...

Thousands of doctors in South Korea are a week into a labor boycott in protest of the government’s push to recruit more medical students to cope with the country’s fast-aging population. As of Tuesday ...

SEOUL, Feb 18 (Reuters) - South Korea's prime minister pleaded on Sunday with doctors not to take people's lives hostage, a day before scores of trainee doctors are expected to quit to protest a plan ...

Members of The Korea Medical Association stage a rally calling for the government to scrap the medial reform plan in Seoul, South Korea, May 30, 2024. The banners read “The National health death.” ...

South Korean police raided offices of the Korean Medical Association (KMA) on Friday. The raids come as walkouts by junior doctors in Seoul have continued despite backlash from the South Korean ...

Physicians say the government’s plan to admit more students to medical school ignores the real cause of doctor shortages: harsh conditions and low wages. By Jin Yu Young Reporting from Seoul Hundreds ...

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Thousands of senior doctors rallied in the South Korean capital, Seoul, on Sunday to express their support for junior doctors who have been on strike for nearly two weeks ...