Students from Seoul National University Medical School, who have refused classes in protest of the government's expansion of medical school quotas, will return to school for the first time in more than a year.

About 700 medical students at Seoul National University applied for registration and return to school by 5 p.m. on the 27th, the deadline for enrollment in the first semester. From the first year (24th grade) who took a leave of absence last year to the fourth year of the main course ahead of graduation, about 90% of the total 840 students, excluding military students, will return to school.

According to the medical community, the Medical Conflict Response Task Force (TF), which gathered students from Seoul National University Medical School, said, "We decided to take a leave of absence or refuse classes after enrollment because we judged that it was practically impossible to continue the struggle due to unregistered leave of absence."

Although medical students from Seoul National University and Yonsei University return to school, they plan to continue their struggle by refusing classes after enrollment. The rest of the medical students said they would still refuse to register, pointing out that there is a long way to go before normalizing medical education.

[Reporter Kwon]