In 2024, the South Korean healthcare system experienced an unprecedented crisis amid severe conflicts between the government and the medical community. The government’s unilateral healthcare policies—especially its proposed increase of 2,000 medical school admissions and its strict countermeasures against protesting physicians—triggered a mass exodus of students, residents, and faculty members crucial to essential medical services. Consequently, medical education across the nation was suspended for a year, and university hospitals experienced severe disruptions in clinical operations as a result of residents abandoning their training. This study provides a multifaceted analysis of the impact of the 2024 healthcare crisis on the Korean medical system, focusing on the collapse of the residency training system, the crisis in medical education, and the disruptions in clinical services. Furthermore, it investigates the remaining challenges and critical actions needed from both Korean society and the medical community to forge a more sustainable healthcare system in Korea.

Recent progress in medical informatics enables us to use medical information regardless of time or place, to make a diagnostic and therapeutic plan, according to increasing need about health of general population. There are many homepages on the web, which provides medical common senses, hospital information, and medical counselling on the web. Virtual Hospital, which offers comprehensive media information, has medical counselling program with various programs such as self-diagnosis, emergency information, drug information, Q and A, and so on. The aim of this study is to examine the content and purpose of medical counselling on the web. The subjects consisted of 150 counselings which were called 'Medical Counselling' in the Virtual Hospital for December 1996 through March 1997. Many questioners wanted to know treatment principles. to make a diagnosis, and to know specific medical knowledge, The most common questions are as follows; general and unspecified, digestive, skin, musculoskeletal problems. These findings suggests that medical counselling may be used to supplement the lack of direct medical interviews with doctors.
Counseling* ; Diagnosis ; Emergencies ; Internet* ; Medical Informatics ; Skin