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A multitude of practices concerning gender inequality has led to a larger unemployment rate of women in the workforce in South Korea. Employment discrimination, private sector policies, and a lack of women's bargaining power in employee relations emphasized by both State and private policy all contribute to the unemployment rate. [11]
The unemployment crisis faced by the nascent South Korea were the least of the nation's concerns by the 1990s: studies report that by 1997, only 2.5% of Koreans were unemployed. [1] However, the sharp downturn the Korean economy experienced later that year during the Asian Economic Crisis proved the need for an active labor market policy and ...
Great Workers' Struggle, mass wave of strikes in South Korea in 1987 demanding better working conditions and autonomous unions, inspired by the June Democratic Struggle. [3] 1988 Hyundai strike, 24-day strike by Hyundai Group workers in South Korea. [4] [5] 1988–89 Hyundai strike, 3-month strike by Hyundai workers in South Korea. [6] [7]
The Republic of Korea's female labor force participation rate (LFPR), is much lower than the male rate for approximately 77%. More specifically, just 55% of Korean women between the ages of 15 and 64 are employed. Despite the fact that South Korea does not make a noticeable difference between the average of OECD countries (being 79%). The ...
Sue Mi Terry advocated South Korean policy positions, disclosed non-public U.S. government information to South Korean intelligence officers, and facilitated access for South Korean government ...
In North Korea, all women's movement was channelled in to the Korean Democratic Women's Union; in South Korea, the women's movement was united under the Korean National Council of Women in 1959, which in 1973 organized the women's group in the Pan-Women's Society for the Revision of the Family Law to revise the discriminating Family Law of 1957 ...
A former CIA employee and senior official at the National Security Council has been charged with serving as a secret agent for South Korea's intelligence service, the U.S. Justice Department said.
South Korea's Ministry of Employment and Labor (MOEL; Korean: 고용노동부; Hanja: 雇傭勞動部) is a cabinet-level ministry overseeing labor affairs.Its predecessor agency, the Division of Labor, was established under the direction of the Minister of Social Affairs (사회부장관) on 11 November 1948. [1]