President Seok-Yul Yoon said, "Doctors should not hold the lives and health of the people hostage and take collective action, no matter what,” in response to doctors who submitted a collective resignation letter and medical students who decided to take a collective leave of absence in protest to the government’s plan to increase medical school admissions.

President Yoon made it clear that increasing the number of medical school seats by 2,000 is the minimum amount necessary to fill essential and regional medical gaps and to train medical scientists and medical entrepreneurs for the advanced bio-healthcare industry.

In other words, the president has directly expressed the posit