Lee Jun-seok: "Yoon, Considering a Coup, Would Expanding Medical Schools Be Scientific?"

Lee Jun-seok Criticizes Yoon Government's Medical School Expansion
"It's so XX it's like a coup, no way it's scientific"
"Medical school expansion causing healthcare collapse must be corrected"

Lee Jun-seok, a member of the Reform New Party, stated that the Yoon Seok-yeol administration must correct the increase in medical school admissions. Photo by Kang Jin-hyung

Lee Jun-seok, a member of the Reform New Party, argued that the Yoon Seok-yeol administration's 'medical school quota increase' must be corrected.

On the 9th, Lee stated on his Facebook, "The Yoon Seok-yeol government has already collapsed," adding, "While doing our best to continue the procedures to remove him, we must also simultaneously correct the medical school quota increase issue that caused the healthcare collapse."

Lee harshly criticized, "Yoon Seok-yeol is such a shameless person that he calls it a coup d'?tat based on fake news about election fraud," and questioned, "Is there any scientific basis for the 2,000-student quota increase standard he set?" He emphasized, "If this is not corrected as much as possible before the regular admissions selection soon, the qualitative decline in medical education next year and additional public inconvenience caused by conflicts in medical policy will be obvious."

As the conflict between the government and the medical community over the medical school quota increase continues into its tenth month, medical schools nationwide, which have increased their quotas by 1,509 students, will announce the 2025 academic year early admission successful candidates by the 13th. Unfilled spots from early admissions will be transferred to regular admissions, and regular application submissions will be accepted from the 31st of this month until January 3rd of next year. The medical community is still strongly demanding the suspension of next year's medical school admissions, urging quota reductions by refusing to transfer unfilled early admission spots to regular admissions. Some voices also call for urgent resolution of the medical crisis, as political turmoil increases the likelihood of a prolonged governance vacuum.