"You're going to punish your major?"... Legislative conflict over decree 'worsening day'

ⓒYonhap News Agency

The medical community is reacting furiously to the expression of the first decree, which the martial law command invoked in an emergency martial law situation.

This is because if a medical worker, such as a medical doctor who is on strike or has left, fails to return within 48 hours, it will be punished under the martial law.

The emergency response committee of professors at Seoul National University and Seoul National University Hospital said in a statement on the 4th, "The resigned medical personnel are not on strike or off the scene because their contracts with their past workplaces have ended, so they have nothing to do with the items."

"Despite the confusion caused by the declaration of martial law, which threatens democracy, our medical personnel will protect the health of patients and protect the rights of medical personnel, including residents," he stressed.

The emergency committee of the Catholic Medical University Professors' Council issued a statement on the 4th, saying, "What's more surprising is that the martial law decree specifies doctors as targets for punishment," adding, "Are doctors anti-state forces?"

There is also strong opposition from medical doctors.Some say that President Yun

's declaration of emergency martial law and martial law proclamation have even turned back majors who were about to return.

The martial law was lifted in six hours, but critical comments such as "the government must have been quite stressful," "Is the doctor an anti-state force," and "I can't believe he tried to solve the return of his major with martial law."

Concerns are raised that the parliamentary conflict triggered by the increase in medical schools will worsen.

Reporter Park Sun-young of Digital News Team