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South Korea is one of the world’s fastest ageing societies. Earlier this year, medical schools finalised their admission quotas for 2025 which was up nearly 1,500 compared to the previous year.
According to a Gallup Korea poll released on Friday, more than half of those polled support increasing medical school admissions in 2025.
But 64 per cent of those polled also said the government was poorly handling the situation, and that President Yoon Suk Yeol’s disapproval rating was at 67 per cent.
The health ministry earlier this week said it was deploying military doctors to meet the shortage of medical staff but disputed a warning by some physicians that the system was on the verge of collapse.
