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 ...

SEOUL (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 involving a ...

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, South Korea (AP) — South Korean trainee doctors collectively walked off their jobs Tuesday to protest a government push to recruit more medical students, triggering cancellations of surgeries ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

South Korea will scrap plans to increase the number of medical school students on condition that current students who took leave under protest return to their classrooms by the end of March. The ...

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 ...