{"id":62103,"date":"2024-02-23T13:17:46","date_gmt":"2024-02-23T04:17:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/feb\/23\/south-korea-doctors-strike-public-health-alert-hospitals-surgeries-details-protest-seoul"},"modified":"2024-02-23T13:17:46","modified_gmt":"2024-02-23T04:17:46","slug":"south-korea-doctors-strike-severe-public-health-alert-issued-for-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=62103","title":{"rendered":"South Korea doctors\u2019 strike: \u2018severe\u2019 public health alert issued for first time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The walkout by 8,400 doctors is in protest at government plans to raise the number of trainee medics<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/south-korea\">South Korea<\/a> has raised its public health alert to \u201csevere\u201d for the first time, after thousands of doctors went on strike to protest against government recruitment plans, in a dispute that shows no sign of resolution.<\/p>\n<p>The walkout by 8,400 doctors had started to impact medical services, with major general hospitals forced to cancel up to 50% of operations and turn away patients seeking emergency care, according to the Yonhap news agency.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/feb\/23\/south-korea-doctors-strike-public-health-alert-hospitals-surgeries-details-protest-seoul\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The walkout by 8,400 doctors is in protest at government plans to raise the number of trainee medicsSouth Korea has raised its public health alert to \u201csevere\u201d for the first time, after thousands of doctors went on strike to protest against government r&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":344,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1154,346,222],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-doctors","category-health","category-south-korea"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/344"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62103"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62104,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62103\/revisions\/62104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}