[Breaking] Court Dismisses Medical School Professors' Injunction Suspension Request: "Applicant Lacks Standing, Request Invalid"

A group of medical school professors' association filed a suspension of execution request against the Minister of Health and Welfare regarding the increase in medical school quotas, but the court dismissed the request.

On the 2nd, the 11th Administrative Division of the Seoul Administrative Court (Presiding Judge Kim Jun-young) dismissed the suspension of execution request filed by representatives of the professors' councils from 33 medical schools nationwide against the Minister of Health and Welfare and the Minister of Education.

Previously, the applicants had requested the suspension of the effect of the Minister of Health and Welfare's decision dated February 6 to increase the nationwide medical school admission quota by 2,000 students for the 2025 academic year, and the Minister of Education's decision issued on the 20th of last month to increase the nationwide medical school admission quota by 2,000 students for the 2025 academic year, until 30 days after the judgment date of the main case.

The court stated, "Since the applicants cannot be considered to have a direct and concrete legal interest in each of the decisions in this case, the applicants' standing cannot be recognized," and added, "The applicants' request in this case is therefore improper."

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