Court Dismisses Suspension Request for Medical School Expansion Filed by Residents and Medical Students

The suspension of execution requests filed by residents, medical students, and examinees against the Minister of Health and Welfare regarding the increase in medical school quotas was dismissed by the court.

Seoul Administrative Court, Yangjae-dong, Seoul.
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The Administrative Court of Seoul, Administrative Division 4 (Chief Judge Kim Jeong-jung) dismissed on the 3rd the suspension of execution requests filed by 18 individuals including medical school professors, residents, medical students, and examinees against the Ministers of Health and Welfare and Education concerning the decision to increase and allocate 2,000 medical school quotas for the 2025 academic year.

A dismissal is a ruling that ends the trial without examining the merits when the lawsuit does not meet the requirements or the claim is not subject to judgment.

With this, two out of six suspension of execution requests filed in opposition to the government's medical school quota increase policy have been dismissed by the court.

The previous day, the same court's Administrative Division 11 (Chief Judge Kim Jun-young) dismissed the suspension of execution request filed by representatives of the nationwide 33 medical school professors' associations.

At that time, the court ruled, "The applicants cannot be recognized as having direct and concrete legal interests regarding each disposition in this case, so the applicants lack standing," and "The applicants' request in this case is improper." The professors' association appealed this decision.

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