As per reports, following are the updates on the doctors’ protest in South Korea as on Friday (02 August):

• The Health Ministry has stated that it would have hospitals roll out additional recruitment notices later this month for striking trainees.
• Only 104 junior doctors – 13 interns and 91 residents – had applied as 126 local training hospitals sought to recruit 7,645 candidates — 2,525 interns and 5,120 residents. 45 of them have applied to the five biggest general hospitals in Seoul, which accounts for 1.4 percent of the positions available.
• Asan Medical Center received zero applicants for its plan to recruit 440 junior doctors. Samsung Medical Center received less than 10 candidates. The number of applicants at both Seoul National University Hospital in Jongno-gu and Severance Hospital in Seoul’s Seodaemun-gu were in the single digits.
• The Catholic Medical Center, which manages eight training hospitals, including Seoul St. Mary’s Hospital, had only received 14 applicants when it sought to find trainees for 1,017 positions.
• 100 junior doctors attended a job fair hosted by MOH Holdings, the holding company of Singapore’s public health care institutions on Saturday (27 July) in Seoul. Many of them reportedly enquired about obtaining physician licenses in the Southeast Asian country, working conditions, working hours and work intensity. Around 30 junior doctors underwent interviews on-site during the session.