Tarun Ramesh, Carmel Shachar, Hao Yu
N Engl J Med . 2025 Jan 16;392(3):209-211. doi: 10.1056/NEJMp2411647. Epub 2025 Jan 11.
Since February 2024, more than 12,000 South Korean medical residents (80% of all residents) have been on strike, protesting a new government policy designed to increase medical school admissions, which they argue doesn’t address their concerns about low pay and poor working conditions.