Editorial: Meeting with junior doctors crucial to resolve standoff

Some 12,000 junior doctors in South Korea have walked out of the job since Feb 20 in protest of the government’s plan to increase medical school enrolment. — Bloomberg

SOUTH KOREAN President Yoon Suk Yeol wishes to meet with trainee doctors to hear them out, Yoon’s office said last Tuesday, but the Korea Intern Resident Association has not officially responded.

The presidential office made the statement hours after Cho Yoon-jeong, public relations committee chief of the Medical Professors Association of Korea, implored KIRA leader Park Dan to meet with Yoon “without any conditions” if the president extended the invitation.