South Korea’s government is threatening to take legal action against thousands of striking junior doctors and revoke their medical licences if they do not return to work on Thursday.
Around three quarters of the country’s trainee doctors are protesting government plans to admit drastically more medical students to university each year, to increase the number of doctors in the system.
More doctors will not fix the structural issues within the healthcare system, that leave them overworked and underpaid, one doctor interviewed by the BBC says.
South Korea has one of the lowest doctor-to-patient ratios among developed countries, and with a rapidly aging population, the government is warning there will be an acute shortage within a decade.
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