Nice. This should have no repercussions.

It’s complicated by the fact that SK has some of the highest patient to doctor ratios in the developed world. They sorely need more doctors, especially as their population continues to age.

An ideal solution, in my mind, would have been to offer the doctors pay increases alongside the increased admissions. As it is now, to the doctors, the increased admissions can’t seem to be anything other than downward pressure on wages.

However, right wing governments rarely give any concessions to organized labor, regardless of the consequences, which I fear in this case may be quite dire, as the strikes were highly concentrated, especially in Seoul.

Based, the doctors are being unreasonable, protesting government plans to train 10000 more doctors to join a sector that is stretched very thin is a very selfish move. professional associations that try to block common good policies should be dismantled.

I’m usually more supportive of labor protests but it’s hard to see the strike aimed at blocking this legislation as anything but selfish.

Are there details about them demanding labor concessions in exchange for this bill or is it simply “no more new doctors”?