Hundreds of South Korean doctors protested in Seoul and other cities against the government's plan to increase the number of medical students by 2,000 from 2025. Doctors say that the steep increase is ...

(Bloomberg) -- A South Korean plan to greatly increase medical school seats has helped prompt more top students to enroll for exam-prep studies to become doctors — over the once sure-fire bet of ...

Medical schools across Korea decided to issue failure notices to students who have boycotted classes since the start of the spring semester, pushing the standoff between the medical community and the ...

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 ...

SEOUL, July 12 (Reuters) - South Korean medical students who walked out of school last year in protest at a government plan to increase medical school admissions said on Saturday that they would ...

Thousands of senior doctors have rallied in the South Korean capital to express their support for junior doctors who have been on strike for nearly two weeks over a government plan to sharply increase ...

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 ...

SEOUL, South Korea — 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 over a ...