SEOUL, Police raided the home and office of the chief of an online platform on Tuesday as part of an investigation into an online post allegedly blacklisting trainee doctors who did not participate in the ongoing mass walkout.

The Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency sent investigators to the home and office of Medistaff’s chief, surnamed Ki, in southern Seoul to seize evidence, following two prior rounds of searching the firm’s headquarters earlier this month.

The search was conducted as police are investigating a post uploaded on the online communications platform for doctors in early March, which included a list of trainee doctors who opted out of the walkout and derisively referred to them as “true doctors.” It also contained personal information of the listed doctors.

Ki is suspected of neglecting the controversial post on his platform.

Several Medistaff workers are also under police investigation on suspicions of attempting to conceal data connected to another controversial post allegedly encouraging t
rainee doctors to delete medical history data before they leave their training hospitals for collective action.

Over 90 percent of the country’s 13,000 trainee doctors have stayed off their duties at general hospitals nationwide for over a month in protest against the government’s expansion of the medical school admission quota.

Source: Yonhap News Agency