June 2

• ●Medical student boycott sparks fears of academic chaos amid enrollment surge (The Korea Times)
  A leave of absence for medical school students is being extended over three months, as the Ministry of Education on Thursday confirmed the first increase in medical school enrollments in 27 years.
  
  

• ●Dating violence surge across all age groups in S. Korea (The Chosun Daily)
  A murder of a mother and daughter by a man in his 60s in Gangnam on May 30 occurred less than a month after a 26-year-old medical student fatally stabbed his girlfriend near Gangnam Station on April 6.

June 3

• ●Health minister voices concerns over planned vote on strike by community doctors (The Korea Herald)
  Health Minister Cho Kyoo-hong on Monday expressed concerns over a planned vote on a strike by community doctors, saying such an action would worsen a monthslong standoff with trainee doctors over the government's medical reform.
  
  

• ●Workers in 20s need 86.4 years to purchase apartment in Seoul with wages: report (The Korea Times)
  Average Koran workers in their 20s need 86.4 years to buy an apartment in Seoul using only their wage earnings, a report showed Monday.
  
  

• ●Seoul to offer childbirth, child care incentives to small businesses (The Korea Times)
  The Seoul city government said Monday it will offer exceptional incentives to small and medium-sized companies that implement childbirth and child care promotion systems, such as payment of money gifts for birth and flexible work hours.
  
  

• ●As provincial medical school target local talent, ambitious parents leave Seoul for the suburbs (Korea JoongAng Daily)
  Parents aspiring for their children to become doctors are packing to leave Seoul, as the new medical school admissions scheme allocated more spots for students living outside the capital.
  
  

• ●Nearly 86% of Koreans call for doctors to end walkout: poll (The Korea Times)
  Nearly 86 percent of Koreans believe junior doctors, who have been on a walkout since late February, should return to hospitals, a poll showed Monday, reflecting growing public fatigue over the ongoing disruptions in medical services.
  
  

• ●Seoul to offer incentives to companies supporting childbirth, child care (Korea JoongAng Daily)
  The Seoul Metropolitan Government announced on Monday that it will offer incentives to small and midsize companies that implement policies supporting employee childbirth and child care.
  
  

• ●Girls starting school early could boost fertility rate: state-backed agency report (The Korea Herald)
  A state-run research organization in South Korea has sparked debate after its analysis suggesting that sending girls to school a year earlier could help boost fertility rates last week.
  
  

• ●Ministry urges doctors to end walkout, mulls processing resignations (The Korea Herald)
  Amid the ongoing dispute between doctors and the South Korean government despite the increased medical school quota for 2025 being finalized, Health Minister Cho Kyoo-hong on Monday voiced concerns regarding a planned strike vote by community doctors and warned that such actions could exacerbate the ongoing standoff with trainee doctors over the government's medical reform.
  
  

• ●1 in 3 people born in '60s think they will die 'lonely death': survey (The Korea Herald)
  Some on in three South Koreans born in the 1960s think that they will die alone without receiving support from their children, a survey showed Monday, suggesting the senior population's growing concern over the change in family dynamics and support for aging parents.
  
  

• ●Gov't reviewing accepting resignations by trainee doctors; warns of action against possible strike by community doctors (The Korea Times)
  The health ministry said Monday it will actively review accepting resignations by striking doctors to allow them to seek other career paths, while devising ways to minimizing disadvantages to returnees.

June 4

• ●'Filipino nanny program lacks clarity' (The Korea Herald)
  An international non-government organization, committed to protecting the rights and welfare of migrant workers, has issued a statement expressing about a pilot program for introducing Filipino caregivers to South Korea.
  
  

• ●Govt. expected to accept resignations of trainee doctors (The Korea Herald)
  The health ministry is expected to announce a plan Tuesday to accept the resignations of trainee doctors, a source close to the matter said, in a move to help them seek other career paths or return to hospitals.
  
  

• ●UN body says Korea should not abolish its Gender Ministry (Korea JoongAng Daily)
  A UN body called on Korea to scrap its plan to abolish the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family in a report released on Monday.
  
  

• ●Hospitals allowed to process resignations as gov't adopts lighter touch (Korea JoongAng Daily)
  The government said Tuesday that it would allow hospitals to let junior doctors leave by "revoking" administrative labor orders imposed on them and greenlighting the due processing of their resignations.
  
  

• ●Female local government workers outnumber males for first time (The Korea Herald)
  The number of female local government employees surpassed that of their male counterparts for the first time ever in 2023, data showed Tuesday, but higher-ranked civil servents were still mostly men.
  
  

• ●More Korean husbands seek divorce than foreign wives (The Korea Herald)
  Korean husbands visited marriage counseling centers on divorce more often than foreign wives last year, a report on multicultural couples showed.

June 5

• ●UN urges swift appointment of gender equality minister in Korea (The Korea Times)
  A United Nations body has urged the Korean government to appoint a minister for gender equality and family, a position that has remained vacant since February following the government's plan to abolish the ministry.
  
  

• ●Trainee doctors seen as lukewarm as gov't allows them to return to hospitals without legal burdens (The Korea Times)
  Trainee doctors who left their worksites for months in protest of the government's medical reform were seen as mostly lukewarm to plans by the government to allow them to seek other career paths or return to hospitals without legal burdens, according to some junior doctors Wednesday.
  
  

• ●Man with IQ of 65 acknowledged as having disability (The Korea Herald)
  A South Korean court on Wednesday ruled in favor of a man in his 40s who had challenged a recent decision by the government not to acknowledge him as having an intellectual disability.

June 6

• ●SNU medical professors vote to conduct 'general strike' from June 17 (Korea JoongAng Daily)
  Medical professors at one major hospital are standing firm in their opposition to the official plan to expand medical recruitment by staging a "general strike" despite recent conciliatory gestures from the government.
  
  

• ●Gangnam attracts over 185,000 medical tourists, driven by K-beauty boom (Korea JoongAng Daily)
  A record number of medical tourists visited Gangnam District in southern Seoul last year.
  
  

• ●SNU hospital doctors vow to go on strike amid impasse over striking trainee doctors (The Korea Herald)
  Professors at four hospitals affiliated with Seoul National University have voted to go on strike later this month if the current impasse over striking trainee doctors is not resolved, their representative said Thursday.
  
  

• ●Marriage race: Koreans get cautious, calculative in search for 'the one' (The Korea Herald)
  "Why is it so hard to find someone to marry?"
  
  

• ●Medical professors go on all-out strike after quota hike confirmed (The Korea Herald)
  Despite efforts to wrap up the prolonged feud between doctors and the government over the implementation of the Yoon Suk Yeol administration's plan to increase the admissions quota for medical schools from next year, medical professors decided on Thursday to take collective action with an en masse walkout.
  
  

• ●Korea's population forecast to drop 1% annually from 2054 (The Korea Times)
  Korea's population is anticipated to decrease 1 percent annually starting 2054 due to rapid aging and chronically low birthrates, government data showed Thursday.

June 7

• ●S. Korean firms to allow up to 6 days leave for infertility treatment (The Korea Herald)
  South Korea has announced plans to double the upper threshold for the number of vacation days eligible for infertility treatment from three to six, in a move to create an equal working envrionment for men and women.
  
  

• ●Korea's gender equality shows slight improvement in 2022: govt. data (The Korea Herald)
  South Korea's level of gender equality improved slightly in 2022, although women's presence in leadership roles and political representation remains low, according to government data released on Friday.
  
  

• ●SNU doctor walkout could set off domino effect at Korea's major hospitals (The Hankyoreh)
  Collective action by Korean doctors is entering a new phase as professors at Seoul National University-affiliated hospitals announced they will be suspending all but emergency room and ICU medical services on an indefinite basis beginning June 17.