As to the emergence of doctors' labor unions, we also see the need to greatly emphasize its positive features as a development of [South Korean doctor's] nature as professional workers rather than as a proletarianization.

The topic of female conscription has become a [political] hot potato in Korea ever since the Constitutional Court declared in 1999 that giving certain benefits and privileges exclusively to those who have completed their military service—who are mostly men—is unconstitutional.