South Korea will scrap plans to increase the number of medical school students on condition that current students who took leave under protest return to their classrooms by the end of March.

South Korea will establish a $34 billion policy fund to provide financial support to companies involved in strategic technologies such as chips and autos amid intensifying global competition and protectionism,

South Korea plans to set up a $34B fund to provide financial help to strategic sectors such as chips and autos amid growing global competition and protectionism scenarios, Reuters reported. "Competitiveness in advanced strategic industries has emerged to be the core of national economic security amid heightened external uncertainty under the new