South Korea plans to increase medical school admissions by more than 3,340 students from 2027 to 2031 to address concerns ...

SEOUL, Feb 10 (Reuters) - South Korea plans to boost medical student numbers by 16% in 2027 and further in subsequent years, ...

Thousands of South Korean medical students are set to return to classrooms after a 17-month boycott, an industry body said July 14, ending part of a standoff which also saw junior doctors strike.

South Korea's health ministry plans to increase its medical student intake by 16% in 2027, continuing to expand until 2030. This follows a healthcare crisis due to protests led by doctors against ...

SEOUL (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 return to ...

(Bloomberg) -- 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 ...

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 ...

Policymakers argue that expanding medical school intake is necessary to prevent worsening access to care. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

On February 1, 2024, South Korea released a policy package aimed in part at addressing the growing physician shortage crisis in the country. To that end, the package included an expansion of the ...

South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol is known for being tough on doctors – not without due reason. He has a history of butting heads with the medical establishment. Prior to 2000, doctors in South ...