Defense Minister Shin Won-sik called on troops Wednesday to master operational systems to neutralize North Korean nuclear and missile networks as he visited a key command bunker amid an ongoing South Korea-U.S. military exercise.
Shin made the call …
The health ministry chided medical professors Wednesday for moving to resign in support of a mass walkout by junior doctors that has disrupted public health services for more than three weeks.
More than 90 percent of the country’s 13,000 trainee doc…
Professors from medical schools nationwide have begun to contemplate whether to submit resignations in collective action pressuring the government to seek a breakthrough in the protracted walkout by trainee doctors, a medical professors’ group said W…
Prime Minister Han Duck-soo said Wednesday the government’s decision to increase the medical school enrollment quota by 2,000 to address the shortage of doctors was based on scientific analysis.
Over 90 percent of the country’s 13,000 junior doctors…
South Korean stocks finished higher Wednesday, tracking overnight Wall Street gains driven by megacap tech stocks. The local currency fell against the U.S. dollar.
The benchmark Korea Composite Stock Price Index rose 11.76 points, or 0.44 percent, t…