In a video interview with a reporter from the Kyunghyang Shinmun on the 10th, four residents of pediatrics and adolescents explained why the number of residents choosing pediatrics was inevitably decreasing and what needs to be done to overcome this crisis right now. “Why is the shortage of pediatrics and adolescents only now becoming a hot topic? The neonatal intensive care unit has become a hot topic because there are people leaving, but it is already ‘destroyed’ without anyone leaving.