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Game Developers Afraid of ‘Crunch Mode’ Revival as Gov’t Plans to Extend Workweek Hours

SEOUL, March 16 (Korea Bizwire) — As the government plans to allow the legal cap on weekly work hours to be raised to 69 hours from 52 hours, the gaming industry, notorious for its “crunch mode” practices, is on alert. “Crunching” is a period of elevated workload where developers work significant overtime to deliver a [...]

Half of S. Korean IT Workers Have Experienced Highly Intense Labor Without Rest

SEOUL, Dec. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — More than half of the information technology (IT) workers in the Gyeonggi Province’s city of Seongnam, especially Pangyo district, the Korean version of Silicon Valley, turned out to have experienced highly intense labor. The city government conducted a survey of 1,627 wage workers and freelancers in IT within the [...]