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Doctor's strike is much more complicated than the outsider view, because the Korean Medical Association had a very conservative view for the number of seats anyway. It is true that residents are indeed overworking, but that's more like 80 hours per week, not 100 as you have suggested; and established average doctors work even much less---48.1 hours per week in 2020. Resident doctors take such burden because they'll eventually get out of resident positions and most of them will enjoy the occupational leisure, which made doctors one of the most sought occuptations for the current Korean generation.

The imbalance in medical accessibility and quality for urban vs. suburban areas was well known for decades so that the reform itself was very much desired, but the current government did it so ineffectively that they just had to give up after the strike.