Why do young doctors from South Korea get angry?

When the second general strike of the medical community took place on the 26th, the government said, "We will issue an order to start working as doctors and full-time doctors in the Seoul metropolitan area and legally punish them if they refuse to do so."

The rate of participation in the strike was sharply divided between doctors and local hospital specialists. Of 32,787 hospitals in the neighborhood, 3,549 accounted for 10.8 percent (as of 12 p.m. on Sunday). However, 70 to 80 percent of doctors participated in the strike, and at least 58.3 percent (based on the 25th tally of the Ministry of National Defense) are estimated to have participated in the strike.

At Seoul National University Hospital and Samsung Medical Center, 80 to 90 percent of doctors took off their gowns. Doctors work more than 80 hours a week after completing medical school for six years through fierce competition, and the government intends to expand medical schools at will without any discussion and establish public universities under the pretext of national health. Is this fair?" Some doctors are expressing their anger, saying, "I can't stand the government's unfair and unilateral policies," adding, "I don't care if my license is revoked." Medical officials pointed out that the younger generation, who have opposed the PyeongChang Olympics, valued procedural legitimacy and fairness in the controversy over the unified women's hockey team, are strongly opposed to the government's unilateral and unfair policy drive.

Tension lingered inside the auditorium on the fifth floor of the Seoul Metropolitan Council, where the representatives' meeting of the Korea Council for Major Academic Studies was held early Wednesday. With the Ministry of Health and Welfare tentatively agreeing to suspend the four major policies and the Korean Medical Association's strike, the Daejeon city council's decision is on whether to push for a general strike on Wednesday. Doctors held a six-hour marathon meeting from 7 p.m. on Saturday to discuss whether the strike would last indefinitely. The delegation, who came out of the recess, only made a face and took a rest silently. The conclusion, which came out around 1 a.m. on the same day, was "in fact in favor of a near-unanimous strike."

Doctors, mostly in their 20s and 30s, said in a resolution on Wednesday that they firmly resist the government's behavior of deceiving the public with wrong medical policies. The Korea Medical University Graduate School Association, which consists of active medical students, also said that nearly 80 percent of medical students and medical students plan to submit their leave of absence by this week. Under the leadership of the Korean Medical Association, senior medical students across the country have already said that nine out of 10 students will not take the medical exam. This is the first general strike in 20 years in the medical community, focusing on those born in the 1990s and those in their 20s and 30s. The medical staff at a university hospital in Seoul seemed to hit the back of their heads without consulting them." Park Ji-Hyun, a doctor at a university hospital in Daegu, said, "My major is also learning medicine, and the government and public opinion cover it with 'protecting the right to gain' and 'fighting the bowl of rice,'" adding, "It is natural for our generation to express their thoughts on what they feel unfair."