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South Korea’s government will take final steps to suspend the licenses of striking junior doctors next week, officials said on Thursday. The medical workers have so far refused to end their walkouts despite the impact on the country’s medical services. More than 90 per cent of South Korea's 13,000 medical interns and residents have been on strike for about a month to protest the government’s plan to sharply increase medical school admissions. Their strikes have caused hundreds of cancelled surgeries and other treatments at hospitals. South Korea, with its rapidly ageing population and low doct...
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South Korea and Europe will announce a joint semiconductor research forum at the EU-Korea Digital Partnership Council meeting in Brussels on 26 March, according to a draft document seen by Euronews. The forum will connect European and Korean researchers and facilitate joint research projects. The two sides will also explore developing common ways to improve security and resilience of chips supply chains. Semiconductors, microprocessors and other chips found in electronic devices are in high demand. South Korea is the world's second largest semiconductor manufacturer, following Taiwan. The EU’s...
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South Korea's Squid Game actor O Yeong-su has been found guilty of sexual misconduct, a local court said Friday, after he was charged with assaulting an actress in 2017. The actor was sentenced to eight months in prison, suspended for two years. He has been also ordered to attend 40 hours of classes on sexual violence. “I am sorry,” he told reporters while walking into his first court hearing in February 2023. “I think I behaved badly.” Nevertheless, he continued to deny the indecent assault charge, which carried a potential prison sentence of up to 10 years. Prosecutors charged O in 2022 afte...
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Junior doctors in South Korea have four days to end their walkouts, the government said on Monday, or they could face prosecution or have their medical licenses suspended. About 9,000 medical interns and residents have stayed off the job since early last week to protest a government plan to increase medical school admissions by about 65%. The walkouts have severely hurt the operations of their hospitals, with numerous cancellations of surgeries and other treatments. Government officials say adding more doctors is necessary to deal with South Korea’s rapidly ageing population. The country's cur...
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A Korean construction company is paying its workers almost €70,000 every time they have a baby in the hopes it helps to tackle the country’s low birthrate problem. The company has already paid a total of €4.8 million in a lump sum to employees who have given birth to children since 2021, including two families with two kids who received €138,000 each at a New Year’s staff meeting earlier this month. "If the current state of low birthrates persists, we will face a national existential crisis such as workforce decline and a lack of defence manpower necessary for national security," said Joong-ke...
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Trainee doctors in South Korea began submitting their resignations en masse on Monday in protest of a government medical policy, causing reported delays in surgeries and other treatments at hospitals. Doctors’ groups and the government have been squabbling over a government plan to increase the number of medical school admissions by 2,000, starting next year. Health authorities say it’s urgent to have more doctors considering South Korea's fast-ageing population. They say the number of doctors in the country relative to the size of the population is among the lowest in the developed world. As ...
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