South Korea gives striking doctors a deadline or else face the consequences.

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South Korea is threatening to arrest any doctors on strike and banned them from ever practicing

again if they don't return to work on Thursday.

Trainee doctors are protesting government plans to increase the intake of medical students to universities to in turn

Boost the number of doctors in the system but doctors argue this will harm their pay and conditions

The BBC's Gene McKenzie reports from Seoul. This is a fierce showdown with thousands of angry hospital doctors on one side and the government on the

other. On the surface the doctors have walked out over plans to increase the

numbers within their ranks but their real anger stems from feeling overworked, underpaid and ignored.

Rieu Okada is one of the thousands of junior doctors who walked out of his job last week.

It's been a really hard time because we work really hard on over 100 hours a week.

In some departments, they only have five minutes of lunchtime.

It's insane.

But why does it matter if there are more doctors?

More doctors surely can't be a bad thing.

Ruyu switches into Korean to explain that unlike in the UK

doctors in Korea are paid per procedure.

If there are more doctors there will be more competition and they may start to

treat patients unnecessarily for profit. These arguments aren't winning the public over. With

Korea's population aging rapidly, people want more doctors on hand.

But the doctors argue this won't fix the shortages

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