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Police to launch investigation if neighborhood doctors go on strike

Police will launch an investigation into a threatened walkout by neighborhood doctors if a related complaint is filed, a senior police official said Monday, a day after the country's largest doctors' lobby called a one-day strike later this month.

Jun 10, 2024
Police to launch investigation if neighborhood doctors go on strike

Med school professors likely to join doctors' planned strike next week

Medical school professors are expected to join a planned strike by doctors next week to lend support for their colleagues protesting the government's medical reform plan, officials said Monday.

Jun 10, 2024
Med school professors likely to join doctors' planned strike next week

Gov't orders community doctors to keep providing medical care after they vote to strike

Health Minister Cho Kyoo-hong said Monday the government ordered community doctors to keep providing medical treatment and report to authorities when they close their businesses, after the doctors voted to stage a strike in protest of the government's medical reform.

Jun 10, 2024
Gov't orders community doctors to keep providing medical care after they vote to strike

Doctors' organization to stage walkout, rally this month

Korea's top doctors' organization said Sunday it plans to stage a walkout and a rally later this month in protest of the medical school quota hike, amid the lingering protest by junior doctors that has lasted nearly four months.

Jun 9, 2024
Doctors' organization to stage walkout, rally this month

Largest association of doctors may stage walkout on June 20: sources

Medical doctors and professors may stage a walkout later this month in their continuing protest against the government's recent decision to hike medical school admissions, informed sources said Saturday.

Jun 8, 2024
Largest association of doctors may stage walkout on June 20: sources

Whooping cough cases top 1,300 in Korea for first time in over 20 years

The number of whooping cough cases has reached its highest level in more than 20 years in Korea as health authorities call for greater precautions and expanded vaccination programs.

Jun 7, 2024By Jung Min-ho
Whooping cough cases top 1,300 in Korea for first time in over 20 years
  • Korea reports this year's first fatal case of Vibrio vulnificus infection
  • Korea reports this year's third fatal case of tick-borne SFTS virus

Korea's child obesity rate nearly quadruples since 2018

The child obesity rate in Korea has nearly quadrupled over the past five years. Conversely, while the overall mental health of children has improved, a recent government survey revealed that the number of children classified as high-risk has also escalated, a government survey showed, Thursday.

Jun 6, 2024By Jung Da-hyun
Korea's child obesity rate nearly quadruples since 2018

Strike vote at Seoul National University Hospital raises concerns of general strike

Doctors at Seoul National University Hospital were holding a vote Thursday on whether to go on a strike in protest of the government's medical reform plan, raising concerns other doctors' associations could join the collective action.

Jun 6, 2024
Strike vote at Seoul National University Hospital raises concerns of general strike

Trainee doctors seen as lukewarm as gov't allows them to return to hospitals without legal burdens

Trainee doctors who left their worksites for months in protest of the government's medical reform were seen as mostly lukewarm to plans by the government to allow them to seek other career paths or return to hospitals without legal burdens, according to some junior doctors Wednesday.

Jun 5, 2024
Trainee doctors seen as lukewarm as gov't allows them to return to hospitals without legal burdens
  • Looming all-out strike by doctors heightens tensions

Korea to invest $1.8 bil. in next-generation nuclear reactors

Korea will invest 2.5 trillion won ($1.8 billion) in developing next-generation nuclear reactor technologies by 2034, the science ministry said Tuesday.

Jun 4, 2024
Korea to invest $1.8 bil. in next-generation nuclear reactors
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