South Korea's second Vice Health Minister Park Min-soo speaks during a media briefing in Sejong, South Korea, February 29, 2024. Yonhap via REUTERS
SEOUL (Reuters) -Thousands of South Korean trainee doctors are refusing to return to work on Thursday, the day the government set as a deadline to end a mass walkout, warning that the young physicians' medical licences could be suspended if they do not return to hospitals.
Two-thirds of the country's residents and intern doctors have walked off the job to protest a plan to raise the number of students admitted to medical school each year by 2,000 in a bid to address what the government says is a shortage of doctors.
