Seoul ¨C Doctors at medical facilities across South Korea walked off the job in a one-day strike Tuesday, dramatically if briefly expanding a months-old protest against the government¡¯s health care policies that began when residents and interns at major hospitals stopped working in February.
The physicians taking part in the one-day strike belong to the country¡¯s biggest doctors¡¯ group, the Korean Medical Association, which has about 140,000 members.
It was not immediately clear how many were participating, but its membership recently voted by a 3-to-1 margin in favor of collective action, according to the group.
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