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Doctors in South Korea are intensifying their efforts to convince the public of the rationale behind their opposition to the government's medical school quota expansion plan. However, some of their remarks have sparked even more heated criticism. A Korean doctor surnamed Kim in Busan metropolitan city has been criticized for saying to people on his YouTube channel that what the country needs is more caregivers, .
Thousands of junior doctors in South Korea have been refusing to see patients and attend surgeries since they walked off the job Feb. 20 in response to the government’s push to recruit more medical students. As of Tuesday, about 8,940 medical interns and residents have left their worksites in protest, disrupting the operations of major hospitals in South Korea and threatening to burden the country’s overall medical service.
Thousands of junior 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