As a growing number of companies in the U.S. and Europe are moving toward a four-day workweek, the South Korean government is now proposing raising their working hour’s cap to 69 hours. NBC’s Josh Lederman reports from Seoul on how young Koreans are now pushing back.
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It's a double-edged sword.
South Koreans worked their butts off to be where they are now (from a 3rd-world country to a top-ten world economy and one of the most technologically advanced nations). But living costs have skyrocketed to the point where they don't have the time or energy to raise a self-sustaining 2.1 family. I believe their birthrate used to be 5.0 in the 50s and 60s. Now it's the lowest in the world at 0.78. 😯. They need to reduce the work hours to below 50, not increase it. What were they thinking? It's just stupidity by this pro-corporation administration, IMHO.
I work 60 a week who works 40 in America lazy 😂
Aside from 69 hours, team dinners and mandatory club participation at many companies sounds crazy!!! When I chose my career in higher education, it was because I decided to value myself–4 1/2 months off per year, not including paid sick and personal leave. I also get to choose 75% of my class hours schedule. I can't complain, but SK workers should.
its not work ethics, it is slavery.
And they wonder why their birth rate is the lowest in the world
Fewer people means we want you to work double and oh ya have a family while at it
So the country wants to burn out generations after generations 😅
You have been diagnosed wt capitalism. Your cure is socialism or communism. Unless u want to have husbands do 80+ hours like in the USA.
69 hours. Not 60, Not 70, 69. That's K-Culture
The end of your career or the end of your genetic line LOL
They mean nothing to Americans
Americans are lazy af like Trump 😂
good, it’s ridiculous. Don’t follow what these old people want. Make your own decisions
K-Trump came up with this crap.
We only have one life, spend it being dictated by industry or fight back.
That's how most of K-Pop, K-Drama, K- Content & Products, etc, have been made under overwork of more than 69 hrs per week to death, so-called in Korean "GwaRoSa"… didn't know?
rip
Hahahahaha. All the Western countries are fooling their citizens. Dummies.
I did 50hrs a week full time job, full time college, and helped raised my younger brother and sister; for 12 years! Looking back, it felt like doing hard time and a hollow achievement.
omg! while here in the US my company just have us work a 4 days a week working from home with wellness hrs in between for better work- life balance after COVID. That’s seem insane in Korea!
In the United States it is not 40 hours. There is a such thing as mandatory overtime. And I promise you you have not lived until you've worked 31 days straight of overtime. Or you've had mandatory overtime for over a year. I saw one company had mandatory overtime for over 2 years. They made people work 7 days a week. And if you are in a conservative employer at-will state you will do what you are told or you will not work.
Their country is so high-tech they can't exactly open up the borders and just let people in. But basically they have a serious people problem. And they're about to solve it by forcing you to work like a juicy Hebrew slave.😅😅😅
It's the same thing as Amazon culture the people that put in place the logistical design behind Amazon are the same people that will never have to work in that logistical Center. And their kids won't have to either.😅😅
They have the same issue that Americans have. The people making the rules have two issues. The first issue is that they themselves would never😅😅😅 deal with any of this. Also their children will never have to deal with any of this
The link between long work hours and low birthrate is downright an existential threat for countries like South Korea and Japan. Beyond the obvious "kids-are-expensive", "kids-mean-career-death", "too many hours at work to spend time with my kids", think how much overwork is a libido-killer. When someone gets off a 12 hour shift they want to just get home, watch netflix, and go to sleep. Dating starts to feel like a second job. Many Koreans cope by either opting out of dating altogether or adopt the liver-killing work hard, play hard lifestyle of hard drinking and partying away during what little free time they have.
The reporter never bothered to check the validity of what he heard from his Korean friends. There has been no government proposal to increase the work hours to 69h/week. The average work hours would not change according to the proposal. The reporter intentionally omitted that part. He never said that the average working hours would still be 52 hours /week. Just read the comments and see what this report has led people to believe. Everyone is saying that the government is trying to increase the working hours to 69 hours a week. This is a dirty trick.