SEOUL, Dec. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Working extensive hours hurts not only physically, but also mentally, a recent study revealed. A research team from Soonchunhyang University Hospital conducted a survey of 14,625 men and women who participated in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey held between 2013 and 2018, dividing them into groups based [...]
SEOUL, May 11 (Korea Bizwire) — A South Korean court has ruled that even when a worker’s overtime hours are not longer than the standard level designated by the government, his or her death can be acknowledged as an occupational accident as long as there was significant workplace stress. The Seoul Administrative Court recently ruled [...]
SEOUL, April 6 (Korea Bizwire) — A revised law took effect Tuesday to give employers greater flexibility in implementing the 52-hour legal workweek, the labor ministry said. The revised Labor Standards Act increases the time period over which employers must ensure employees work no more than an average of 52 hours a week, from three [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — A government research indicated Wednesday a shorter workweek system introduced last year has reduced the daily work hours in Seoul’s central office district of Gwanghwamun by nearly 40 minutes. The labor ministry released the results of a big data analysis of workers’ hours in four major office districts in [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of online shoppers went up visibly after 6 p.m. this year, data from a leading retailer showed Friday, a phenomenon industry watchers tied to shorter work hours. Hourly sales figures from Shinsegae Department Store from January to November this year showed a 30.3 percent increase from 6-6:59 [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — The e-commerce giant Ticketmonster has reported that more men in their 40s and 50s seem to be helping out around the house since July of this year, which was when a 52-hour work week was implemented nationwide by the government. According to Ticketmonster’s analysis of sales data posted during [...]
SEJONG, Nov. 2 (Korea Bizwire) – A new report by a government-backed policy institute has claimed that the introduction of the 40-hour work week has led to a 1.5 percent rise in productivity. The report, published by researchers Park Yun-soo and Park Woo-ram at the Korea Development Institute on Wednesday, showed fewer working hours are linked [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — Lim Ji-yeon, a working mother of two living in western Seoul, is constantly haunted by mobile phone messages from her clients, which often come even after office hours and disrupt her free time and private life. “Can’t we just make after-hour messaging illegal so that it would at least [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea has the second-longest average work hours per person, but its wage levels fall under the median among member states of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), data showed Wednesday. The OECD Employment Outlook 2017, an annual report, said an average South Korean worked 2,069 hours [...]
SEOUL, May 15 (Korea Bizwire) – One in five South Korean employees work 54 hours or longer a week with the downtrend in weekly work hours losing steam in the 2010s, government data showed Monday. According to the data by Statistics Korea, some 5.33 million employees had a workweek of 54 hours or more in [...]