In coastal regions worldwide, people have drained swampy areas, sometimes filling them in with soil, and then developed that newly solid land. This process, known as land reclamation, comes with an ...

A walk-out by South Korean doctors has hobbled the country's medical system. Most of them have defied a government ultimatum to return to work by Thursday. In recent days, South Korea's highly ...

SEOUL, South Korea — Trainee doctors in South Korea collectively walked off their jobs Tuesday to escalate their protest of a government medical policy, triggering cancellations of surgeries and other ...

We journey to South Jeolla and North Jeolla in South Korea to transform into hanbok heroines at the Jeonju Hanok Village, ...

(Bloomberg) -- More than 1,600 South Korean trainee doctors walked off the job Tuesday to protest a government plan to drastically increase spots at medical schools aimed to reversing a shortage of ...

In recent days, South Korea's highly regarded health care system has been in chaos. Thousands of trainee doctors have walked off the job in protest. And as NPR's Anthony Kuhn reports from Seoul, most ...

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