All Resources in South Korea

Peter Wad

Hong Yoonkyung and Kim Aehwa

This dispute is complicated by the way the company divides and rules the workforce using a variety of hiring/contractual systems; similarly this report is complicated by the English words used to describe each group. The chart below hopefully simplifies, defines, and standardises the confusion.

General Working Conditions

Long Working Hours

The current statutory working week is 44 hours. The real working hours in the immediate aftermath of the economic crisis and the IMF-prescribed loan declined slightly due to corporate structural adjustment and slump in the operational rate of facilities. However, from 1999, working hours increased again.

Dara O'Rourke

This is an edited version of Dara's full text, which can be found at http://web.mit.edu/dorourke/www/index.html

This report presents the first systematic public analysis of the code of conduct monitoring methods employed by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) to inspect factory labour practices around the world. The author accompanied PwC auditors on factory inspections in China and Korea, and evaluated PwC's findings for a factory in Indonesia.

Introduction

Sunwoo Lee and In-Jae Lee

South Korea's economy has fallen into serious crisis since 1997 and is now under the control of the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The current economic troubles were unexpected, but the causes seem to be rooted deep in the South Korean economic structure.

National Pension Plan

Issue No : 33 December 1999 - February 2000

Yu, Tae Hee

General Situation

Prostitute Women and Client Statistic