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South Korea’s president vows not to back down in the face of doctors strike
Unionised medical workers stage a rally demanding trainee doctors to return to work in front of Severance Hospital in Seoul, South Korea, April 1 2024, The signs read, "To promote social dialogue to normalise medical treatment and stop refusing treatment."
[Kim Sung-min/Yonhap via AP]
THE president of South Korea vowed today not to back down in the face of vehement protests by doctors against his plan to drastically increase medical school admissions.
President Yoon Suk Yeol labelled the walkouts by the doctors “an illegal collective action” that poses “a grave threat to our society.”
About 12,000 junior doctors in South Korea have been on strike for six weeks, causing hundreds of cancelled surgeries and other treatments at university hospitals.
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