South Korea: interns resign en masse to protest against reform. More than 6,000 young doctors in training in South Korea have submitted their resignations and 1,600 of them walked off the job.
South Korean hospitals were forced on Tuesday February 20 to refuse patients and delay surgical interventions. Doctors are fiercely opposed to the government's plan to sharply increase admissions to medical schools, saying it would harm the quality of services. The Korean Medical Association claimed the reform would create a "Cuban-style socialist medical system"