Surgeries have been delayed and hospitals have turned away patients after more than 1,600 doctors in South Korea went on strike on Tuesday. The junior doctors are protesting the government's plans ...

Earlier, South Korea raised its public health alert to the highest level on February 23, declaring a health services crisis attributed to the mass resignation of thousands of doctors protesting ...

S EOUL — South Korea’s government on Monday told young doctors they had until the end of February to return to work or risk being punished for staging a week-long protest that has disrupted ...

In the six months after trainee doctors resigned en masse last year, about three-thousand more people died, beyond the number that would have been expected under normal circumstances. The ...

The new head of South Korea's largest group of doctors kept a hardline stance, despite a recent conciliatory gesture from the government, dampening hopes for renewed dialogue addressing the ...

(MENAFN- IANS) Seoul, Jan 9 (IANS) South Korea's health Ministry on Thursday expressed hope for engaging in talks with the new head of the country's top doctors' lobby group amid a prolonged ...