"South Korean Doctors' Strike Escalates as Deadline Looms"
South Korea's government has threatened to arrest thousands of striking junior doctors and revoke their medical licences if they do not return to work, as around three quarters of the country's junior doctors have walked out of their jobs over the past week to protest government plans to admit drastically more medical students to university each year. The doctors argue that training more physicians would dilute the quality of care, while the government warns of an acute shortage of doctors within a decade due to the country's low doctor-to-patient ratio and rapidly aging population. The standoff has caused disruption and delays to surgeries at major teaching hospitals, with the government refusing to accept the doctors' resignations and instead threatening to have them arrested for breaking medical law if they do not return to work.
