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Daegu Mayor Hong Joon-pyo has sparked controversy with his proposal to rename Dongdaegu Station Square to "Park Chung-hee Square" and build a statue of the former president at the site.
Forty universities with medical schools nationwide have applied for expanded new medical student places, which would be an increase of more than 3,000 spots, for next year.
Patients could face more significant disruptions to medical services as the government and doctors continue to clash over the Yoon Suk Yeol administration's plan to increase medical school admissions quotas.
President Yoon Suk Yeol said Friday that achieving a free, prosperous and unified Korea was the final goal sought by the independence movement in 1919 against Japan's colonial rule.
The government said it will soon initiate steps to suspend the licenses of striking trainee doctors who failed to return to work by the Thursday deadline imposed by the government as a nationwide walkout continues in protest against the Yoon Suk Yeol administration's proposal to increase the enrollment quota at medical schools.
Doctor Lee Doo-ik, 76, has offered medical treatment on South Korea's front-line Baengnyeong Island for a decade.
The medical community is facing an internal split as the conflict between the government and doctors over the medical school enrollment quota increase intensifies.
The vacuum caused in the nation's medical services due to trainee doctors’ ongoing strike, in protest against the government's medical student quota increase policy, is highlighting hospitals’ heavy dependence on junior doctors.
The government issued an ultimatum to junior doctors on Monday, stating that those who return to work by Thursday will not face accountability. This comes after interns and resident doctors submitted their resignations and went on strike last week to protest the government's proposal to increase the annual quota of medical school enrollments.