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14:59Rapper jailed after public street fight with another rapper
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14:51Med schools expect 1,500+ new admission slots next year
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14:49Seoul to provide housing subsidies for couples with newborns from 2025
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14:45Lim Yunchan announces change of program for June recitals
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14:25After bitter defeat, S. Korean soccer coach blames himself, calls for overhaul
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14:24HD Hyundai CEO to co-chair WEF Special Meeting
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Social Affairs
KMA's new head renews call for scrap of med school quota hike for dialogue
The incoming head of South Korea's leading doctors' lobby group reiterated on Sunday the call for the government to scrap the planned medical school quota hike in order to initiate dialogue with the medical community. About 12,000 trainee doctors have left their worksites since Feb. 20 in protest of the plan to boost the number of medical students by 2,000, causing delays in medical treatments, with some emergency rooms partially limiting their treatment of critically ill patients. Lim