South Korea medicine students end up boycotting the classes for 17 months

The Korean Medical Association announced that thousands of South Korean medicine students are scheduled to return to the classroom after a 17 -month boycott.

Students and doctors trained She went out to oppose the government’s plans to increase admission to the Faculty of Medicine, on the pretext that it would reduce the quality of the education they received.

A timetable has not been provided for their return by the association, but the group urged the government to restore the academic evaluation and improve training conditions.

Prime Minister Kim Min Seok welcomed the end of the boycott, describing it as a “big step forward.”

“It is time to take a deeper look at the medical field, Congress, and the government, so that citizens can help solve problems,” he wrote in a statement on Facebook.

“We will put our confidence in the government and parliament and commit to returning to the school to help normalize medical education and the health care system,” said the Korean Medical Association, in a statement issued in conjunction with the Education Committee in Parliament and other lobby groups.

The government wanted to increase the annual admission of medical students to universities from about 3000 to about 5,000, saying that more employees were needed to meet the demand.

She returned to her plan in March 2025.

While students plan to return, novice doctors remain a strike, as they also protest the working conditions.

This caused the disruption of patients, as some surgeries were delayed and patients faded last year.

The Yonhap News Agency reported that 8,305 students will undergo a class, which requires them to repeat the same academic year, according to the Ministry of Education.