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2013 World Human Rights Cities Forum: Sustainable Human Rights City for All
Under the theme “Sustainable Human Right City for All: Guiding Principle for a Human Rights City” the 3rd World Human Rights Cities Forum (WHRCF) was successfully held in Gwangju, Korea from May...
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Intern Commits Suicide due to Pressure
An intern at a financial institution in Korea committed suicide. The 29-year-old man became an intern at a medium-sized brokerage firm last year after graduating from a private university in Seoul...
View Article65% of Social Workers are Clinically Depressed
65% of Korea’s Social Workers are Clinically Depressed After the recent suicide report of a Social Welfare worker who took his own life last month showing “signs of overwork and stress,” it has been...
View ArticleKorea Increases Support for Onsite Day Care Centres to Boost Female Employment
The Korean government announced that it would increase the scale of support for child care centres at workplace from 39% to 70% by 2017 over the course of 5 years. The overall budget provided to...
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Corporate Restructuring: Best Way to Fire Employees
On March 16th, a set of documents labeled “voluntary resignation forms” were laid out in front of Ms. Kim. Her firm was going through corporate restructuring, and was eager to lay off as many...
View ArticleUnskilled labourers earn less than minimum wage
Stories of university students or others in their early 20′s working long hours for low pay and without benefits are not uncommon in South Korea, and such workers can easily be seen working in a wide...
View ArticleUniversity Lecturers Refuse Futile Attempts by the Government to Improve...
The National Assembly passed the Lecturer Law in 2011 to improve the status of college lecturers, but the law has been suspended to take effect due to oppositions from both the universities and the...
View ArticleSix months after suicides by social workers, extreme workload situation has...
Earlier this year, a string of suicides by social workers due to their extreme workload caught the attention of the public. Six months have now passed since the suicides, but social workers say that...
View ArticleNHRCK: Recommends Stable Employment for English Conversation Teachers
The National Human Rights Commission of Korea (NHRCK) has recently released a recommendation to the Minister of Education calling to establish a countermeasure to project the layoff of over 600 English...
View ArticleDangerous workplace conditions; even if you’re hurt, ‘just shut up and work’
Health and safety standards for part-time and temporary employees are severely lacking in many workplaces, according to a survey conducted by the Korea Occupational Health & Safety Agency...
View ArticlePresident Park Geun Hye’s First Year Evaluation
Approximately one year ago, the international community was congratulating South Korea on its election of its first woman president, Madam Park Geun Hye. Citing that it was a progressive move in...
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“White Only” Trend When Hiring English Instructors Still Prevalent
As anyone with experience working as a foreign English instructor in Korea knows, nationality-, age-, gender- and racially-based discrimination in hiring practices of hagwons (private after-school...
View ArticleImportant Legal Precedents Regarding Sexual Harassment at the Workplace
December is a month with many company dinners and other after-work outings, events where there are often instances of sexual harassment of various forms. As a review of the current legal environment...
View ArticleNHRCK Releases Human Rights Business Guideline: A Progression in Korean...
On January 8th, the National Human Rights Commission of Korea (NHRCK) announced the publication of its “Human Rights Business Guideline and Checklist” in order to proliferate the human rights business...
View ArticleEqual Opportunity Employer: Corporations Prohibited from Discriminating based...
Beginning from the first season of the biannual recruitment next year, corporations in Korea will be prohibited from discriminating potential employees based on their academic backgrounds. The...
View ArticleWage Discrimination on the Sea: Foreign Fishery Crew Paid Significantly Less
Despite the National Human Rights Commission of Korea (NHRCK) recommendation to increase the minimum wage of foreign maritime crew members, the Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries instead has removed it...
View ArticleSmartphones and Social Media: Privacy Violations at Work
Smartphones and Social Media: Privacy violations at work The “Investigation on Impacts of Informational Systems on Human Rights and Labour Violations” released on January 15th by the National Human...
View ArticleThe UN warns Korea over violating the rights to express and protest
Upon learning the cases of unfair dismissal of MBC and YTN union members as well as oppression of protesters of Hanjin Heavy Industries and Construction by the police, the UN warned the Korean...
View ArticlePlan for 1 Month Paid Paternity Leave Opposed by Labor and Finance Ministries
On January 15th The Kyunghyang Shinmun reported that President Park Geun-Hye’s election campaign promise to introduce a “mandatory 1 month paid paternity leave (Father’s Month)” ran into opposition...
View ArticleCall center agents suffer from abusive language over the phone
Their hand movements are skilled and fast, while their facial expressions were dry and calm as if time has stopped. When the call continued for a long time, some bit their lips or turned their head...
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