Follow the trainee-doctor walkout and the government's later changes to the 2026 medical-school intake. A quota decision, a return-to-class condition and actual staffing recovery are separate developments.
Selected milestones through April 2025, with February 2024 included as essential background. This is not a current hospital-service guide.
Dates without a time use the local date of the event.
South Korean trainee doctors walked off their jobs in protest against plans to expand medical-school admissions.
AP reported cancellations of surgeries and other treatments. The dispute concerned workforce policy as well as training capacity.
The government accepted a proposed 2026 intake of 3,058 on the condition that medical students returned by the end of March.
The condition matters: this announcement did not establish that students had already returned.
The education ministry announced that the 2026 intake would return to 3,058, with university-level allocations to follow.
Changing the following year's intake did not by itself resolve all training and service disruptions.
Selected milestones through April 2025, with February 2024 included as essential background. This is not a current hospital-service guide.