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Korean Medical Association chief Choi Dae-zip speaks during a virtual meeting with senior members of the group at KMA headquarters in Seoul, Saturday. Yonhap By Bahk Eun-ji A doctors' association has threatened to launch a strike and boycott the government's COVID-19 vaccination plan to protest the ruling party's attempt to revise the Medical Act, revoking the medical licenses of doctors who are sentenced to prison or receive heavy punishment for felony crimes. The threat marks the latest clash between the government and the Korean Medical Association (KMA). During the previous clash last August and September, trainee doctors held a strike to protest the government's plan to increase admissions quotas at medical schools. The government was forced to put the plan on hold as it was essential for doctors to return to work as coronavirus infections continued to grow. The KMA, which represents 130,000 doctors, issued a statement Saturday, expressing anger and saying it would...

  There are about 7,000 languages spoken around the world -- and they all have different sounds, vocabularies and structures. But do they shape the way we think? Cognitive scientist Lera Boroditsky shares examples of language -- from an Aboriginal community in Australia that uses cardinal directions instead of left and right to the multiple words for blue in Russian -- that suggest the answer is a resounding yes. "The beauty of linguistic diversity is that it reveals to us just how ingenious and how flexible the human mind is," Boroditsky says. "Human minds have invented not one cognitive universe, but 7,000." Transcript :  0 0:10 So, I'll be speaking to you using language ...   because I can.   This is one these magical abilities that we humans have.   We can transmit really complicated thoughts to one another.   So what I'm doing right now is, I'm making sounds with my mouth   as I'm exhaling.   I'm making tones and hisses and puffs, ...