> On Tuesday, health minister Cho Kyoo-hong issued this threat amid the ongoing protests by approximately 9,000 junior doctors, who have been absent from their

> On Tuesday, health minister Cho Kyoo-hong issued this threat amid the ongoing protests by approximately 9,000 junior doctors, who have been absent from their hospitals for eight days. They are opposing the government’s proposal to increase the medical school entry quota by 2,000 seats next year. (...) South Korea has one of the lowest doctor-to-patient ratios among major economies and recently the government proposed to add 2,000 slots to the current annual quota of 3,000 medical students. So doctors stopped assisting patients to pressure the government into keeping an artificial scarcity that benefits them, and harms everybody else. That doesn't sound reasonable. They are forcing people to not work a job they would have desire to work otherwise, by colluding to artificially limit the number of students.