Cho Kuk: "Yoon Government's 'Medical School Expansion' Is a Hit-and-Run Election Campaign"

"Using the Issue of Increasing Medical School Admissions as a Campaign Topic"

Jo Guk, leader of the Jo Guk Innovation Party, stated on the 26th, "President Yoon Seok-yeol and the ruling party are using the issue of increasing medical school quotas as a campaign material."

Cho Kuk, leader of the Cho Kuk Innovation Party, is holding a press conference on the 25th at the National Assembly regarding the 'Prosecution's Illegal Surveillance of Civilians.' Photo by Kim Hyun-min kimhyun81@

In an interview with CBS Radio's 'Kim Hyun-jung's News Show' on the same day, Jo said regarding the increase in medical school quotas, "The Moon Jae-in administration planned to gradually increase the number by 400 to 500 and assign the increased personnel to public healthcare regions, but everything was canceled due to COVID-19," adding, "Now they say they will increase by 2,000, but there is no plan to assign them to public or regional healthcare." He continued, "Currently, there is a shortage of medical personnel in essential medical fields and medically underserved areas, so they say to increase the number, but without any alternatives, they are just increasing the number of doctors," and said, "So doctors have no choice but to be angry."

He further stated, "The current focus should be on where the increased doctors will work and how to accommodate them simultaneously, but the Yoon Seok-yeol administration is labeling all doctors as selfish and not engaging in any dialogue," adding, "They have no alternatives for regional healthcare, medically vulnerable areas, or essential medical fields, and without detailed plans, they are punishing doctors in a crackdown style to show firm leadership, which I see as almost a campaign activity."

Regarding the Jo Guk Innovation Party's announcement the previous day to push for a national investigation into allegations of illegal civilian surveillance by the prosecution, he explained, "According to the court's warrant, only information related to specific criminal charges should be extracted from mobile phones, and the rest should be discarded or returned, but the problem is that the prosecution did not do so." The 'D-Net' server is where private information not subject to seizure was not discarded but copied entirely as image files and stored on the prosecution's server, which he claims is unconstitutional under the law.

He said, "If a national investigation is conducted, we will summon those operating D-Net, whether prosecutors or prosecution clerks, as well as former and current prosecutors general," adding, "I understand that it was most actively used during Prosecutor General Yoon Seok-yeol's tenure." He continued, "At that time, the deputy chief of the Supreme Prosecutors' Office, the D-Net operator, D-Net login users, and those who accessed D-Net through backdoors will all be summoned. The court ordered seizure through warrants and instructed to discard the rest, but we need to verify to what extent and for what purpose the discarded information was viewed," and said, "If confirmed, those individuals, if prosecutors, could face impeachment grounds."