S Korea starts procedures to suspend licenses of 4,900 striking doctors

Like it or not, there are consequences for one's actions, and they are lucky these are suspensions and not firing!

It is hard to understand who is right or wrong.

Usually if 93% of a large population is striking, it means politics are going the wrong side.

More doctors should please everyone, so what it is really at stake? Why not have words from the juniors doctors on strike in this article ?

Madness from the Korean government. SK showing how NOT to run healthcare.

The only hope is to throw enormous $$$ and immediate citizenship to doctors in Vietnam, Thailand, India etc - and hope they have not accepted far bigger offers from Australia, Canada or NZ.

The idiot virus breaks out in SK. Idiocy for striking over this, and more idiocy from the government, banning and delaying doctors from graduating. Grow up, all of you.

When government is in control of licensing, they have the ability to punish licensed professionals for whatever reason the want to.

Depriving licensed professionals of their livelihood because of the whims of government is an abuse of government's powers!

@Jonathan Prin

More doctors should please everyone

Everyone but the doctors. Korean doctors average $400K/year in median salary. Doubling of doctors would crash all that down.

Samit Basu

More doctors should please everyone

Everyone but the doctors. Korean doctors average $400K/year in median salary. Doubling of doctors would crash all that down.

They aren't proposing to double the number of doctors, not even close. And South Korea is in need of more doctors, the government is just responding to the shortfall.

Not enough info here to make an educated guess as to what the motivations are for the SK doctors. Isn't there a shortage of doctors everywhere? Why would anyone be against encouraging the appropriate schools from enrolling more students? For that matter, why is it that medical schools in all countries are not increasing the capacity to teach more doctors?

Our family has been treated by wonderful doctors from China and Iran, which indicates to me that they immigrated here due to a shortage of doctors in the US. I asked the Iranian doctor about his background and motivations. He spent several years in Europe, Norway specifically, before coming here. His words to me were, "Can you imagine being told how to do your job by some mullah?" He was our physician for more than 20 years, and we loved him. From his stories, I gathered that he worked in the Iran-Iraq war. Yes, he is old now.