In Sook Park is professor emeritus at the University of Ulsan College of Medicine and Asan Medical Center. She is a former member of South Korea's national assembly.
South Korea's health care system is now facing a severe crisis due to a reckless policy of President Yoon Suk Yeol, who in February 2024 announced that annual medical school admissions would increase by 2,000 students from 2025. This decision, made without consultation with the medical community, has ignited widespread protests and outrage. The president claims this increase is necessary to prevent a future shortage of doctors, but no substantial evidence has been presented to justify such a drastic measure. Medical professionals see this as a deeply misguided policy that threatens to dismantle one of the world's best health care systems.
