South Korea’s health minister makes last-minute appeal to medical professors as resignations loom

More than 90 percent of the country's 13,000 trainee doctors have walked off the job for nearly four weeks in the form of mass resignations to protest the government's decision.

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Health Minister Cho Kyoo-hong speaks during a Health Ministry Emergency Measures Committee held in Seoul on Friday. PHOTO: YONHAP/THE KOREA HERALD

March 15, 2024

More than 90 percent of the country’s 13,000 trainee doctors have walked off the job for nearly four weeks in the form of mass resignations to protest the government’s decision.

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