South Korea Shortens 'Inhumanely Long' Workweek
"It is impossible to lead a happy life when long hours and overexertion become routine," President Moon Jae-in said recently. The country has one of the world's lowest birth rates.
Employees in South Korea work long hours: 2,069 hours per worker annually – the second-highest among the Economic Cooperation and Development states, after Mexico. In the United States, that figure is 1,783.
Those long hours went hand-in-hand with the country's in the 1980s and '90s. But for all those hours worked, South Korea's , and so is — the country .
