It has been 3 months since the doctors and the government failed to see eye to eye on the government’s plan to expand medical school admissions by 2,000 students. The prolonged dispute has intensified animosity towards each other.

The doctors have criticized the Minister and Vice Minister of Health and Welfare, Kyoo-hong Cho and Minsoo Park for their absurd remarks and called for their resignation, and even called for the resignation of the administration itself ahead of the general elections.

The presidential office and the government condemned the act as a "cartel of interests" by doctors who were only worried about protecting their own interests and chose to enforce the policy instea