One Month, Then Fifteen Days: How Some Agencies Game the System — and What Korean Law Actually Says

One Month, Then Fifteen Days: How Some Agencies Game the System — and What Korean Law Actually Says

I've talked to a lot of kababayan who've worked through agencies here, and there's a pattern that keeps coming up. First contract: one m…
When the Agency Sends You to the Mountains: Understanding Irregular, Short-Term, and Part-Time Work in Korea

When the Agency Sends You to the Mountains: Understanding Irregular, Short-Term, and Part-Time Work in Korea

A friend of mine once got a call from an agency. Chestnut season, they said. Good pay, they said. She said yes — like so many of us do, because whe…
Protection for Non-Regular Employees: Part 6 of Our Labor Law Series

Protection for Non-Regular Employees: Part 6 of Our Labor Law Series

To close out this series, let's talk about a group many of our kababayan actually belong to — fixed-term, part-time, and dispatch workers, often …