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The government and doctors are signaling apparent willingness to move toward negotiations to find a breakthrough in their protracted confrontation over the policy to raise the number of medical students by 2,000 next year.
Patients who want to receive national health insurance benefits at medical institutes will be required to present their photo identification cards, beginning from May 20, the Ministry of Health and Welfare said Sunday.
Members of the main opposition Democratic Party of Korea (DPK), including Chairman Rep. Lee Jae-myung, have been accused of using hate speech against women, leading party insiders to raise concerns that such controversial remarks could result in the alienation of female voters and swing voters, with less than a week left remaining until the April 10 general elections.
Mothers grow old, but a mother's love for her children is timeless. Cho Ki-joo, 92, proved it by joining the election campaign of her 58-year-son, Kim Seon-woo, a minor opposition Saemirae Party candidate running for a National Assembly seat in Damyang, Hampyeong, Yeonggwang and Jangseong counties in South Jeolla Province for the April 10 general elections.
Only 4.3 percent of new interns have actually registered for internship training amid the prolonged tensions between the government and the doctors’ community over the planned hike in the medical school quota, according to the Ministry of Health and Welfare, Wednesday.
Second Vice Health Minister Park Min-soo, who has spearheaded the Yoon Suk Yeol administration's efforts to boost the admissions quota of medical schools, has emerged as the primary adversary of doctors. He is being cited as a major obstacle hindering dialogue between the government and the doctors' community to resolve the ongoing health care standoff.
Hur Young-in, the chairman of bakery giant SPC Group, was brought for prosecution questioning by force Tuesday over allegations that he forced bakers at an affiliated firm to quit their labor union. The action came as the chairman has disobeyed prosecution summons multiple times.
Basic science researchers have raised concerns that the Yoon Suk Yeol administration's plan to increase the number of medical students could pose a serious threat to the advancement of scientific technology in the country. They fear that the science sector may be marginalized as attention is predominantly focused on medical schools and education.
The National Election Commission (NEC) is scrambling to uncover hidden cameras at polling stations after a YouTuber was arrested Sunday for installing at least 40 such illegal devices at early polling stations and ballot count locations.
The new leader of the largest coalition of doctors vowed to disturb campaigns of politicians who have been on the offensive against doctors, by persuading patients not to vote for them in the April 10 general elections, amid a protracted conflict with the government over the planned medical school admissions quota hike.