There is one more requirement I want to highlight before we move on to Voluntary Early Retirement Programs, because I think it's one of the mos…
Continuing from where I left off, I want to walk you through the second big requirement Korean employers must meet before they can legally dismiss …
Up to now, I have been sharing individual dismissal stories with you — real disputes between one worker and one employer. But there is another kind …
Here is a question that comes up more often than people realize in Korean workplaces: if you leave your job because your employer strongly suggeste…
Of all the labor cases I have come across while studying Korean labor law, this one left me the most disturbed — and I found out I was not alone in…
Not every labor dispute in Korea ends in a courtroom-style ruling. Sometimes, the wisest outcome is one where both sides simply agree to let go and …
Today I want to talk about two small words that cause big trouble in Korean employment contracts: "not limited to." I was reading throu…
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…
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…
This part of our series is about something a lot of us have never heard of, yet it exists precisely to give workers a voice inside the workplace — …
This part of our series covers something close to home for many of us — how the law protects workers, especially women and parents, from unfair tre…