More than 6,000 trainee doctors submit resignation letters in protest against increase in medical school capacity in South Korea. In South Korea, the government, which announced an increase in the capacity of medical schools as a measure to deal with the shortage of doctors, and doctors who oppose the increase are in a fierce conflict.
There is widespread confusion in the medical field, with some major hospitals in Seoul unable to handle emergency outpatient services and surgeries being postponed one after another. President Yoon Seong-yeol called for an early return, saying, "We must not hold the lives and health of the people hostage"