A number of senior doctors in South Korea announced on Saturday that they will submit their resignation as of March 25. Thousands of trainee doctors stopped working on February 20 to protest against a government project aimed at confronting the shortage of health workers and the aging population.
The government had ordered young doctors to return to work under penalty of legal penalties. Seoul plans to accept 2,000 additional students into medical schools every year starting next year to increase what it considers to be one of the lowest ratios of doctors relative to population among developed countries.