Korean Medical Association vice president: ”I'll go to prison”... Encourage participation in group vacations - Korea

Park Yong-eon, vice president of the Korean Medical Association, encouraged members of the association to take part in a collective absence from clinics, saying, "I'll go to prison."
On the 10th, Vice Chairman Park posted this on social media and said, "Please don't become embarrassing seniors.
"Please don't do it. It's the 18th," he added. This is in response to the declaration by the National Medical Association at the National Medical Representatives Conference held the previous day that all clinics will be closed on the 18th and a general rally will be held.
At the time, the Korean Medical Association emphasized that it was "signaling the beginning of a struggle to take the lead and save medical care in the Republic of Korea."
In response, Jeong Byung-wan, director of the Ministry of Health and Welfare's Health and Medical Policy Office, said on the 10th
At a press conference held by the Central Disaster and Safety Countermeasures Headquarters for Collective Action, he stated, "Refusal to provide medical treatment is an absolutely unacceptable behavior that threatens the lives of citizens and patients, and the government has no choice but to respond firmly to collective refusals to provide medical treatment."
In addition, in order to prevent mass refusals to treat patients from becoming a reality, the government has decided to issue orders to doctors who are open to provide medical treatment and to declare closure of their clinics.
On the 18th, the government announced that it would implement measures to prevent the spread of the virus, including whether it was related to collective activities, for all hospital-level medical institutions.
The government plans to call to check whether clinics are closed or not, and if the rate of clinic closures in a region exceeds 30%, it will lower the order to resume operations and initiate administrative and punitive measures for non-compliance with the order.
The government also decided to examine whether the medical association violated the Fair Trade Act by inciting illegal collective action.