South Korea is a magical country.
The biggest feature of this country is that the giant chaebols control almost the entire country.
As a result, the gap between the rich and the poor in South Korea is very, very large, so big that we can't imagine it.
In such a social context, doctors are a very high-income group.
Belong to the human being.
However, in this "superior" profession, more than half of the people have recently chosen to resign en masse.
In addition to their resignations, doctors took to the streets in protest.
So, what is really going on in South Korea that makes this group of doctors so dissatisfied?
It turned out that it was just to expand the enrollment of medical students.
Knowing this reason, I have to sigh that South Korea is really magical.
The contradictions between various strata and groups in their country have reached an extremely acute point, even to the point of facing each other with swords and guns!
Expansion of medical student enrollment
South Korea is just a small country.
Every year, only 3,000 medical students are enrolled in Korea.
Three thousand, in the mainland, is just the enrollment of one or two schools of medical school.
That's already the number of medical students enrolled in the whole of Korea.
There are only 100,000 doctors in South Korea, and the number of doctors is the lowest in the world.
In the past, South Korea recruited so many medical students every year, but it did not recruit them.
As a result, every year, a group of doctors retire and new doctors are added.
In this way, a stable cycle is formed.
However, such a number of doctors is actually insufficient.
South Korea's medical resources are not rich.
As a result, South Korea's Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Health and Welfare, together issued a statement on February 6 this year.
The statement said that by next year, that is, in 2025, there will be an expansion of medical students.
The number of recruits is too much, and it is not too much.
However, it has increased from 3058 to 5058 people, which is not much, just two thousand, which is really not much.
Let's say more, there were only three thousand, but there were two thousand more, and two-thirds was directly added.
Moreover, this expansion is not a year, but from 2025, and 5,058 people will be enrolled every year thereafter.
The doctor protested
In the mainland, it is a long and painful process to become a doctor from a medical student: surviving university is only a prerequisite, the basic requirement is to graduate with a master's degree, and many majors require a doctorate to become a doctor.
In Korea, there is not only a long process to become a doctor from a medical student.
In addition, there are many other difficulties in South Korea, such as discrimination and bullying.
It can be said that it is difficult to become a doctor, but to become a doctor is to seize a golden job.
The salary is high, the benefits are good, the career accompanies lifelong, and is respected by the whole society......
Each Korean doctor treats 6,991 people, which is the highest in the world.
This means that the proportion of doctors in South Korea is the lowest.
Naturally, they make the most money.
Since the number of doctors in Korea is stable at the moment.
This means that today's doctors share a big piece of the pie.
The expansion of medical students means that the number of doctors has expanded.
Add 2,000 more a year, and it will be 20,000 in ten years.
Eventually, the number of doctors in South Korea will need to increase by roughly two-thirds.
For ordinary people, this means more medical resources and more convenient medical treatment.
But for doctors, it means less income.
So, this lowers the benefits of the doctors.
So the doctors quit and resisted!
On the 16th, the National College of Physicians in South Korea, issued a statement.
By the 20th, there will be doctors from the five major hospitals who will resign en masse.
The five major hospitals are mainly located in Seoul, the capital of South Korea, and are Seoul National University Hospital, among others.
Not only that, but doctors have held street demonstrations in many places across South Korea to protest the policy of expanding the enrollment of medical students.
Most seriously, some people threatened the government that if they didn't stop recruiting students, these doctors would take measures to bring down South Korea's medical system!
What a bold statement.
The government is tough
In response to the protests of South Korean doctors, the South Korean government has chosen to be tough.
The government said that if doctors continue to mess around, the government will severely punish them and even revoke their medical licenses.
But this may just be a threat of inwardness.
If the South Korean government fails to suppress those doctors, even if it revokes their licenses, it will only exacerbate the medical debacle and cause nationwide unrest, with dire consequences.
If it had been for the town's resident doctors, there would not have been this conflict.
Therefore, the situation of the South Korean government may be very embarrassing.
In fact, there have been many contradictions between the South Korean government and doctors before.
This medical student enrollment expansion incident is more like a fuse.
ignited the contradictions that had been buried before.
In this regard, we can only sigh with emotion, it is worthy of South Korea, and it is really magical.
I don't know, how will this matter be resolved after that?