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South Korea eases contentious medical school expansion

Universities allowed to halve new quotas as walkout puts government under pressure

Doctors protest against the government's medical policy near the presidential office in Seoul in February.   © AP

SEOUL -- South Korea's government on Friday came out with a compromise for its controversial plan to have medical schools admit 2,000 more students a year, as a mass walkout by trainee doctors strains the health care system.

The proposal presented by Prime Minister Han Duck-soo would let universities enroll fewer students than the increased quotas, though only for the 2025 academic year.

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