Young South Koreans push back on proposal to increase workweek cap

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As a growing number of companies in the U.S. and Europe are moving toward a four-day workweek, the South Korean government is now proposing raising their working hour's cap to 69 hours. NBC’s Josh Lederman reports from Seoul on how young Koreans are now pushing back.
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@DailyMeditation365 Год назад

Having worked in Korea, I'll say that a majority of late "work" doesn't actually consist of work. Junior employees are expected to stay in the office until their senior is finished. It's an unfortunate part of the hierarchical and paternalistic Korean work culture that just won't go away.

@josephd.5930 Год назад

What if the seniors were drunk and slept in office

@HwaRang777 Год назад

@@josephd.5930 That's typically after the mandatory company or department parties/dinners, I can only imagine once that's over, people are finally let go of having to spend time with coworkers and managers.... unless they gotta carry the drunk boss to his house or office (assuming this level of filial piety is still common in modern Korea)

@ainzooalgown7589 Год назад

and thats why most that complete work early do other things at work example work on laptop but not connected to the network and hence are actually watching drama and anime because being efficient is a punishment and less likely get promoted over the guy that takes 2 weeks to write a plan on how to stack magazines on a shelf.

@slawter1342 Год назад

Been there, done that. Manger and senior would happily shove all this under the pretence of team building development.

@ueckbueck Год назад

악습인데 사람들이 별로 끊을 생각이 없어보임

@johnchoi8748 Год назад

“Younger Koreans prioritize enjoying life over making money “… of course, your whole purpose is to enjoy your life and earn a living. Not be controlled by money.

@lordgrim-wn5fh Год назад

Isn't there a saying like you should work to enjoy life and not life to work hard

@marites4 Год назад

@@lordgrim-wn5fh work to live not live to work.

@lordgrim-wn5fh Год назад

@Melody L that it thanks

@agsheuehd Год назад

And they expect people to have gf/bf, married and make babies. Seriously, people have to have their own time to start their family.

@chrisx5127 Год назад

@@lordgrim-wn5fh Vietnamese say that, Chinese, Korean, and Japanese say the opposite.

@pmwyy Год назад

Why didn’t you interview a regular working person? You interviewed a guy who can afford to do whatever he wants because his dad will hand him a job (actually, a whole company) one day.

@michaelrmurphy2734 Год назад

Or not. The father there could sell the company and get a big payment. For himself or his son. Good for Dad he respects his son to decide that. And do you think the company owners behind Kpop and Kdramas are NOT millionaires?! If they are smart about money, the son there club DJing might make MORE money than the Dad!

@pmwyy Год назад

@@michaelrmurphy2734 Sure, these are all possibilities. But one thing that’s for sure is that he’s not the typical young person who’s going to be most effected by the increased working hours. He doesn’t even work a regular hours NOW.

@samsar9118 Год назад

true.

@djm2189 Год назад

Literally! Must be real nice to be able to choose to work your hobby. Knowing you're financially secure and if you "wanted" to work you have a high job. All the people and they chose this guy.....

@asahel980 Год назад

@@michaelrmurphy2734 do you believe anything what was said in the interview? most of the times whats really happening are kept in private.

@sheaskateboarding Год назад

Imagine lying in your death bed and thinking back of all those good memories of working

@roamiblu1833 Год назад

Okay!! 🤣😂

@copycatsyoutube2112 Год назад

💀

@thebestlife1174 Год назад

The good'ol times 😂

@StephH0711 Год назад

Imagine living on the side of the road because you can’t afford your rent/ mortgage or utilities.

@TheAnonapersons Год назад

@Incomeking u must have no life

@5pctLowBattery Год назад

Why in the age of supercomputers and smart robotics do we need to work 60+ hours a week just so we don't starve and freeze to death? Surely we've reached the point where any scarcity left is intentionally created by those hoarding all the wealth. How is this not the standard view?

@steven2183 Год назад

short answer: intergenerational indoctrination

@timpac17 Год назад

Not about needs anymore, it's about wants

@DieFarbeLila88 Год назад

Everything gets more expensive. One huge part is wealth hoarding but a lot of things are also getting more complicated to produce because of higher production-standards, safety-standards, hygiene-standards, etc. that have to be adhered to.

@azmodanpc Год назад

Wages haven't kept up with productivity and insane profits of companies. Same companies that offshored so many jobs, merged, becoming even more powerful and suppressed any form of labor organization (just look at the founder of Starbucks, flipping off Congress and admitting to Union Busting like it's something commendable).

@leechrec Год назад

I blame the stock market. Forces us to work more. Sustainability is ignored for greater ROI.

@LALALA-tw8vt Год назад

I’m glad our generation is fighting back for better work-life balance seeing how our parents n grandparents slough so hard and make themselves so sick

@ayoCC Год назад

Working that hard used to mean you were trying to get noticed and rise through the ranks , but I guess workers are so expendable now. In that case, pro work balance laws need to be stronger. It used to be that people would get a job and could do just what's required and they're still too valuable to let go...

@EM-rm2xh Год назад

It's not like working hard will result in stability either.

@gwenmloveskpopandmore Год назад

Reminds me of the U.S immigrant families as well almost

@sergeybrin1963 Год назад

I feel like everyone's seeing it wrong. It seems like it was UP TO that amount, as in you have the option to either do more or less. It doesn't seem like anyone in the US or anywhere seems to have a problem with that being a possibility as long as it's something like a surgeon, where you or someone who you love could really use that life saving surgery? Work-life balance no longer important there?

@kyungshim6483 Год назад

Korean here. I spent my young adulthood as a full-time undergraduate, master and phd student while working 40+ hr wks at a family business and dealing with 3+ hr commutes. Did that for years and years until I got my first real job. By then I was so burned out it was hard to find the motivation to do anything. Ten years later I decided to retire and never work a single day in my life. It's almost 4 years later now and I couldn't be happier. I gave up heavy drinking, regained my health, I sleep on average 7 hrs each night, have regained a positive mindset and outlook on life, and I feel amazing both physically and mentally. I'm not that disgruntled, unhappy and self-destructive person anymore. So so happy now.

@michaelrmurphy2734 Год назад

WOW! Dude, that's good to hear. What is your PhD? And you could think about having a wife and kids. Start your own family now. Given that as recently as the 1970s, South Korea was not the economic powerhouse it is now. Wealthy countries have the money and want leisure. Where do you think Kpop comes from? Talk about another sweatshop! Korean idols who have killed themselves. :(

@notsecure Год назад

That's what Japanese did in 80s, now Koreans are walking the same path.

@paramandeepsandhu154 Год назад

how did u retire, dont u have to work

@Cj-en4fj Год назад

Good for you!!

@samsungelec964 Год назад

I am so happy for you that you do not have to work to survive.

@damnjustassignmeone Год назад

I like how they’re proposing 69 hours, not 70, so it sounds better.

@fanman420 Год назад

nice

@ZenithalPoint Год назад

noice

@marla79 Год назад

Nice

@TheUsername217 Год назад

NICE

@damnjustassignmeone Год назад

@@fanman420 Nice

@jerbsherb4391 Год назад

It's weird because as I am aging, I realize that I want things to become more comfortable for the newer generation while some of my peers would prefer them to suffer as they have.

@gwenmloveskpopandmore Год назад

Yeah I think that’s what’s gonna happen here in the U.S. as an American

@jerbsherb4391 Год назад

@@gwenmloveskpopandmore I am an American and I am stating how selfish our fellow citizens are when it comes to progression. No such thing as hard work or putting in hours. It's all about how efficiently you can do the job and get paid. Someone who is working 60 hours is making 1/3rd of someone who work 20 hours. How can you bring a child into this world and spend time with them when work is occupying so much of your time? Quality of life has diminished and some of these Asian countries are examples of why people are overworked and commit suicide in most cases.

@EhCloserLook Год назад

69 hours is crazy. I work full-time in the US, and once you factor in time required to get ready for work and commute time, it easily _feels_ like I’m working over 53 hours a week! I hate it!

@samsungelec964 Год назад

Only in the contraint of 52 hours a week in average

@roamiblu1833 Год назад

Someone who feels my pain!! I literally said this to one of my co-workers. And you know if you miss that commuting window, what would have been maaaaybe 40/45 minutes to work easily turns into an hour +. By the time you get to work, you're exhausted and need a nap.

@user-xj5ig9yy2v Год назад

I really think this president guy will be impeached in 3 years.

@djm2189 Год назад

After uni, i did the whole office and commute thing. Hated it but knew eventually my computer science degree would give me a remoteish job. Thanks to the pandemic, I'm now 28 and fully remote. No commute! Best part earn $112k+ and hardly do 30hrs/week. Really happy camper!

@EhCloserLook Год назад

@@djm2189 Sounds like you’re livin’ the dream. I wish I had done CS, but, then again, I just barely got a ‘C’ in my college JAVA class. 😓

@atkim122 Год назад

The link between long work hours and low birthrate is downright an existential threat for countries like South Korea and Japan. Beyond the obvious "kids-are-expensive", "kids-mean-career-death", "too many hours at work to spend time with my kids", think how much overwork is a libido-killer. When someone gets off a 12 hour shift they want to just get home, watch netflix, and go to sleep. Dating starts to feel like a second job. Many Koreans cope by either opting out of dating altogether or adopt the liver-killing work hard, play hard lifestyle of hard drinking and partying away during what little free time they have.

@IzzyKawaiichi Год назад

That's just the tip of the iceberg. You want to have kids? Are you financially prepared to send them to hours of after-school programs every day? That's the expectation. I work at a hagwon. Kinder in the morning, elementary in the afternoon. Our classes end at 5:45, but after English classes, most of my elementary schoolers go to more classes for other subjects. Many of them don't even get home until 10 o'clock at night. Their parents are paying for all of that. These kids are burnt out before they even graduate.

@NAEL782 Год назад

expensive housing because the land is not big like american

@Doflaminguard Год назад

Kids in cities are a burden as they say.

@demarcusds95 Год назад

Bingo. It’s all by design

@MA-gn5nl Год назад

there’s also many young adults who embrace the childfree life such as myself

@J_Lag Год назад

I did 50hrs a week full time job, full time college, and helped raised my younger brother and sister; for 12 years! Looking back, it felt like doing hard time and a hollow achievement.

@GizmoMaltese Год назад

I don't see how this is possible.

@josephdahdouh2725 Год назад

@@GizmoMaltese Well, he probably bombed everything. Taking care=forcing children to do work. Full time college=probably failed or did only decent in everything. Full time job=killed myself from exhaustion. It is possible if you were never exposed to social media. I do a similar thing to this dude but instead of raising kids and working, I spend my time on RU-vid or social media. So, if I didn't have this platform to distract me, I would probably be able to do what this person did.

@bettylee234 Год назад

Hollow achievement 😔

@mkhanman12345 Год назад

@@josephdahdouh2725shoulda, woulda

@adrienng7845 Год назад

@@bettylee234 i mean “help” here have probably are just some what in financially and maybe just simply cook and cleanup if they are old enough they probably can clean the dishes by themselves so is just mainly college and work. 50hrs a week is pretty possible just around 7hrs a day for 7 days. So a class from morning to around 3 4 pm. job from 5pm to 12pm should do the job. Saturday and Sunday when there are no class he could easily do minimum 12hrs so in just two days he already got >=22hrs so he only have to work 7hrs for 4 days to achieve 50hrs/week and even have 1 day off And for school if you actually listened to what the teach take some decent note school shouldn’t be much of a problem

@bombaybeach208 Год назад

People can be pushed only so far. I was working 55 hours a week coming in alone on weekends to keep up with my workload and ended up in the emergency room with stress related symptoms.

@rxlxviii Год назад

If they institute free college for all, expect the same in America. There will be a much higher labor supply of higher education and people will be competing for the limited number of jobs. And since there is limited space in college, expect students to have the same lifestyle of South Korean students where they leave for school at 7 AM and get home from school as late as 3 AM.

@charlesberkeley6429 Год назад

I lived in Korea for a decade. Work life balance is a partcularly complex issue in the country. The competition dynamics are very different from what Americans are used to and Korean workers have to prepare for an extremely long time just to secure a job. They then work brutal hours but to quit due to long hours is career suicide. There's a whole bunch of other factors like after hours drinking that make hours even longer. Commutes are generally long as the majority of jobs are located in Seoul proper which is very expensive. Many commute 1+ hrs extending the hours away from home even further. Korea is still amazing overall.

@thechemtrailkid Год назад

Sounds like a nightmare

@tednguyen7258 Год назад

this isnt kdrama

@mrparts Год назад

Dystopian. A demographic death spiral provoked by corporate greed .

@tobyc8668 Год назад

What happen if you reject after hours drinking?

@FC-eh7ll Год назад

@@tobyc8668 I wanna know too but I’m guessing you’d get ostracised or simply picked on by your superiors and seniors in some way or another.

@guybeingaguy Год назад

You’re only doing this thing called life once. Make it count with no regrets!

@redsable6119 Год назад

That's not going to happen anyways but there's no harm in trying...

@EhCloserLook Год назад

Too late for me… SOOO many regrets already!!!

@777Skeptic Год назад

That scene in Change Up where Jason Bateman wakes up in Ryan Reynolds' body, and just takes the day off since he doesn't have to suit up and go to the law office, really hits hard once you get a 40+hr/week job and forget your dreams and who you are. The US should go down to 30hr/week. Work to live. Don't live to work.

@guybeingaguy Год назад

@@777Skeptic Had to minimize and cut back luxuries, but I retired at age 47 with full pension, stocks and benefits. Lifetime bachelor, moved to the beach and laugh at my friends doing 60hr work weeks “chasing the dollar”. BEST decision EVER! Come on age 65 and SSI !!!!

@redsable6119 Год назад

@@EhCloserLook I hear you, that ship has sailed!

@tomboyjessie1352 Год назад

I'm glad that the younger generation are standing up.

@nikeprojock Год назад

chile i cant imagine, i do 40 hours and even that seems too much sometimes

@immealldayeveryday9425 Год назад

The crazy part is that even with 69 hours a week most people still struggle to make ends meet cause the pay absolutely sucks

@InternetUser._ Год назад

40 hours is too much. We’re not on this earth to spend most of our time trading time for money doing something we just barely tolerate.

@divx1001 Год назад

@@InternetUser._ fr, I can't get over how hypocritical it is to keep 40 hour work weeks. We have 24 hrs in a day, one third for work, one third for sleep and one third for leisure but our leisure and sleep time gets robbed by the work time because most people have to commute, get ready etc meaning we have less hours left for both sleep and leisure while our boss gets those 8 hours and can even have us fired if we do less. Ridiculous.

@that1guy74 Год назад

Can we all just take a moment to appreciate the dad respecting his sons decision even though he disagrees. Truly a rare sight to see in todays world.

@dagobello Год назад

I thought 40 was high. Also, most jobs don’t pay lunch so in USA we really work about 45 but on paper it looks like 40.

@nickk4653 Год назад

If you work during your lunch (meaning are expected to or if your lunch is interrupted) you should probably contact someone. Most jobs would end up being required to compensate you if that were the case.

@n00bonastick Год назад

40 hrs is mostly a western thing. most of asia/southeast asia work about 10-12 hrs a day 6 days a week. that is their work culture and is somewhat normal. albeit there are changes being made to further improve lifestyle and work balance. hence why the father's reaction to a 40hr work week was a surprise. also keep in mind that it's an older generations perspective of how life should be considering they never had the type of education or quality of life we do today making both work and learning easier.

@AngelicoCiudad Год назад

Yeah, 40 must be inaccurate or something? I guess it varies? If you have a very good degree you work for 40/H a week, but if you don't (like most) the work hours tend to be way longer.

@JK-br1mu Год назад

Most hourly workers get an unpaid 30 minute lunch, not an unpaid hour lunch.

@cowboyx9380 Год назад

@@JK-br1mu Exactly

@C_M_R Год назад

Mandating a 69 (nice) hour work week seems crazy to me. However, I think Hwang Joon-Pyo has the privilege of dropping of out college to become a DJ because his father is a CEO of a company .

@cowboyx9380 Год назад

They are not mandating 69 hours, but capping it there, i assume its also including a raise of hours before OT kicks in.

@samsungelec964 Год назад

Mandate is 52 hours/ week. It is fixed now, and the proposal is about giving flexibility of moving some hours from one week to another.

@accaci87 Год назад

Totally agree

@JK-tq7bi Год назад

@@samsungelec964mmm, so i guess then taking care of their children will have to be also flexible now. This flexibility is fine when you don't have kids. It will just drop the birth rate even more.

@francois853 Год назад

@@JK-tq7bi It seems like they are trying to allow people to work more overtime if they so choose. Many people actually WANT to bring in extra money precisely so they can give their children a better life. In South Africa our standard work week is 40 hours with a 10 hour cap on overtime per week. Personally, I don't think the government should have the authority to tell workers how much they are allowed to work. Their only authority should be to tell employers that they can't require employees to work more than a certain numbers of hours.

@vcwloves9864 Год назад

Aside from 69 hours, team dinners and mandatory club participation at many companies sounds crazy!!! When I chose my career in higher education, it was because I decided to value myself--4 1/2 months off per year, not including paid sick and personal leave. I also get to choose 75% of my class hours schedule. I can't complain, but SK workers should.

@CoIorful Год назад

Are you a professor?

@vcwloves9864 Год назад

@@CoIorful Yes.

@smellyeggs456 Год назад

Should go back for my masters so I can teach… not many people have the skills to pass knowledge effectively in technical settings. Lots of time teachers are ridiculed as people that can’t work in industry (maybe true) but I often think the opposite having had a new professor with many big accolades. But yeah, sounds dope and pay probably starts better than trying to climb corp ladders all day.

@vcwloves9864 Год назад

@@smellyeggs456 There is a huge growth of students in technical studies, so you should honestly consider it. I think it all has to do with the high costs of college, but technical studies are definitely needed in society. Programs like automotive, welding, and nursing are always full at our institution. However, technical studies do tend to work a bit different. Their schedules are typically 9-5, bit it's the same amount of time off!

@srichey444 Год назад

I'd do it, if you increase my pay + $20 after the 40 hour mark, otherwise it's an insult. Companies expect the Worker to sacrifice without making any sacrifice themselves or fair compensation.

@alphacentaury Год назад

After 40 hours you’re supposed to get paid 1.5x your base salary.

@ac75911 Год назад

Yes, companies care about their bottom line but always fail to realize it's a two-way street and always has been. Workers have bottom lines too. Even longer commutes = cuts into your bottom line paying ridiculous gas prices.

@EliteHenz Год назад

@@alphacentaury If only, the industry I work in doesn’t do overtime. Expected to work 50-70 hours during busy times and we do not get paid more for it. I once hit 82 hours and all I got was thanks for the hard work!

@stephaniematheny5233 Год назад

That is crazy to work 69 hours a week. That should be cruel and unusual. Crazy!

@kbeats2001 Год назад

Wow that's insane. I'll temporarily working 40 hours and its terrible. Between getting ready and commute time, plus getting there 45 minutes early to get ahead of the work and having to stay late sometimes, it easily a 50 hour work week. All you have time to do is get home and relax for a meager 4 hours to spend with family until you have to go to sleep, get up and do it all over, just hoping to make it to Friday. And the weekend is over in a snap. 69 hours...you have no time to do anything. Not relax, no entertainment, no quality rest, no hobbies, no friends, no family, not date, no fun, no nothing besides rush to eat, rush to sleep, rush to get up and back to work. That's slavery.

@tednguyen7258 Год назад

u wont make it in asia buddy

@Bunny11344 Год назад

@@tednguyen7258 not everyone cares to make it in Asia. I’m Asian and I would never ever want to live or work there. So glad I’m in Canada where I’m not forced to do mandatory ot work. That’s such a crap life to have, live to work*

@algumacoisa0_074 Год назад

@@tednguyen7258 Do you take pride in this? Are you happy for this? Please answer

@tednguyen7258 Год назад

i dont live in asia buddy....i dont even work 10 hours

@algumacoisa0_074 Год назад

@@tednguyen7258 then why the comment?

@josephstalin9357 Год назад

I only work around 35 hours a week and I already feel like that's a good amount

@Diana734 Год назад

They want the birth rate to go up but they are increasing work week hours....🙄

@DogBin685 Год назад

The point is working hours don't really matter in Korean business culture. If you ever work in Korean companies, you will realize how they work inefficiently.

@Kwame_Baroown Год назад

At least they aren't inefficient AND incompetent. If you want to see both come to Canada and see our hospitals or construction work

@unknownt5391 Год назад

i use to work 6 days a week for 5 years in America. I will NEVER do that again. I lost so much time with my family and friends that I will never get back.

@a4andrei Год назад

I would only accept longer workdays if they gave me an additional day off per week. For example, I'd work 9 hours a day, if I would only have to work Monday till Thursday. Belgium I think did something like this, and as far as I remember, it had a positive effect on the workers. Life is already short as it is, there's no point in wasting it at work. Let's not forget that we also have to live it!

@ZhangZhongyi Год назад

The government ought to encourage remote work as it can save employees time spent on commuting. By working remotely, employees are not required to reside near their workplace, which can often be more costly. Furthermore, it allows individuals to balance their family responsibilities and work more effectively. From my own personal experience, caring for family members is more about timing rather than the total time spent. While my mother and child may not need my attention throughout the day, there may be critical moments where my presence nearby can make a significant difference, for example, if my mother were to fall.

@chemicalhap Год назад

That would threaten the very vertical and hierarchical system that Korean companies are built on. Reports for everything, monitoring everything you do in person. In addition to that, alot of managers don't understand web based technologies for anything. Wheras aloT of the US has shifted alot of things to the cloud..with vdi options being the norm. Korean companies still do many things on premises, locally on actual endpoints. Korea is so far behind in workflow technology and culture its not funny. During the pandemic, where in the us remote work was facilitated by a multitude of web options, Korea still had employees coming into the office.

@benw4361 Год назад

I'm in the same boat. So burned out and ready to quit. Only 35 but the idea of working another 30 years like this is too much to bear. I am saving my money, and I want to move to a really small town, buy a cheap home with a yard and just try to quietly enjoy life and being thrifty. I think I'd be happy and maybe start a online business to make side income or work odd jobs I might like such as a coffee barista or math teacher. Money isn't that important if you're not happy. I worked a lot and made good money but I'm not happy and I feel like I'm at the age where I am still alone working and might just die having spent my entire life working like a cog in a machine for others benefit while never pursuing any of my own interests or passions.

@justicedemocrat9357 Год назад

You can teach english online to asian students and also learn how to do payroll and bookkeeping and do that at the comfort of your own house.

@MrDXRamirez Год назад

If South Koreans were politically active as French workers the South Korean president would have been overthrown and flown to the US in exile for this edict.

@samsungelec964 Год назад

French are not half as politically active as South Koreans are.

@kimcheezy3433 Год назад

It all makes sense when you consider that much of Korea's modern and legal frame work was developed and heavily influenced by the U.S.

@aminesussy Год назад

French people just love their manifs. It's a tradition

@MrDXRamirez Год назад

@@kimcheezy3433 ...and the US legal and modern framework was developed by the British and the British the Romans, etc. One exception the US framers wrote a Constitution into which the few are always the winners and the many the losers is the distinguishing feature from the European experience in the Age of Enlightenment. Technically, all the immigrants from the 1800s, dumb and illiterate, had no clue they would become a great mass of losers. 13 amendments in over 200 years establishes a check and balance with a Veto override in case an amendment is passed that harms the very rich in power proves that point. So, in effect there is nothing unique or original about the US, except that it is the first time the very rich robbed America to make it a Shangri-la (a Utopia or before you were born was called a “capitalist communism”) for the whole capitalist class. Maybe your world will make more sense from that perspective.

@acewings221 Год назад

There should be caps on the amount of time that you can work. No one should have to work more than 50 hours per week

@iTzDritte Год назад

The formal oil portrait of father and son at 3:14 would’ve given the story a whole different vibe if it had been shown at the beginning 😂

@MustyBastard Год назад

I remember I worked with this young kid who was from Korea about 10 years ago. Him and I graduated from the same school in Canada. He said he was willing to do anything not to have to go back to Korea. I did not understand why he so vehemently did not want to go back to his home country when he was done school. Now I know. Then again, he ended up getting fired from his job, because his worth ethic was not even good by Canadian standards.

@samsungelec964 Год назад

I think that you are onto something. I read many times that during the working hours, South Koreans do not concentrate as typical American worker does. They just stay in the office long hours. In addition, South Korean society is very efficient, and they do not have to spend long hours after work on things like errands etc. Compared to the other OECD countries, South Koreans spend more hours at work but less hours at home. The overall working hours were about the same.

@meself4955 Год назад

actually that's mostly likely because he didn't want to serve in the military. All Koreans are required to serve in the military after graduating.

@MustyBastard Год назад

@@meself4955 Ah. I did not think of that. Makes sense now why he came to Canada to only finish the first 2 years of a 4 year degree . Must have been expensive for his parents, seeing foreign students pay three times that of a local student. My parents did not pay for anything. Which seems more common in Canada than in foreign countries, where parents struggle and grind for years to pay for their kids education.

@vids5374 Год назад

In the United States it is not 40 hours. There is a such thing as mandatory overtime. And I promise you you have not lived until you've worked 31 days straight of overtime. Or you've had mandatory overtime for over a year. I saw one company had mandatory overtime for over 2 years. They made people work 7 days a week. And if you are in a conservative employer at-will state you will do what you are told or you will not work.

@petermun Год назад

Why 69? Clearly whoever proposed this was trolling. Other than that, business owners and executives will allow workers to stack overtime but at the same time won't allow workers to go on this so called vacation

@PhilHug1 Год назад

Noice

@Rolandjes37 Год назад

Are average work week here in America is about 32 hrs. And that's a full-time. Part-time will be about 12-28hrs. And they hate us working overtime cuz we get extra money. And companies hate for us to have extra money.

@c.b.5535 Год назад

32 hours? The average is 40 hours+ for full time

@Rolandjes37 Год назад

@@c.b.5535 Not in Florida, as a cook in a restaurant.

@lilcourtny08 Год назад

@@Rolandjes37that is a cook and not the typical job. Teachers, cops, fireman, factory workers, and construction workers easily work 40+ hours a week

@Rolandjes37 Год назад

@@lilcourtny08 It's about jobs not police we don't, have enough of them. And police make about 34,000 to about 58,000 a year. A backup quarterback makes about five million a year. A entertainer like Drake makes about 40 million a year. And some people had one parent growing up because their father or mother passed away. Or their father or mother just simply wasn't there. I would go to Google and research more before you say something that you really don't understand. We pay more for entertainment then we do for protection in this country.

@Rolandjes37 Год назад

@@lilcourtny08 And a bad cook does a lot for this world it shuts people up for about 27mins two or three times a day. You probably don't think how whiny and much of a baby people are in this world but they're bunch of babies out. They complained and bitched about everything in the world. If you feed them they ain't talkin.

@iu2 Год назад

It's a double-edged sword. South Koreans worked their butts off to be where they are now (from a 3rd-world country to a top-ten world economy and one of the most technologically advanced nations). But living costs have skyrocketed to the point where they don't have the time or energy to raise a self-sustaining 2.1 family. I believe their birthrate used to be 5.0 in the 50s and 60s. Now it's the lowest in the world at 0.78. 😯. They need to reduce the work hours to below 50, not increase it. What were they thinking? It's just stupidity by this pro-corporation administration, IMHO.

@clivepereira123 Год назад

and then they are shocked why their birth rate is plummeting

@marieb8711 Год назад

omg! while here in the US my company just have us work a 4 days a week working from home with wellness hrs in between for better work- life balance after COVID. That’s seem insane in Korea!

@user-gv1fe5sz2p Год назад

Lucky you lol

@ac75911 Год назад

Give me a hint at which company you're at? Ive been remote for 7 years with some work travel and think your current employer is on the right track.

@marieb8711 Год назад

@@ac75911 Fortune 500 co

@snoopyshultz Год назад

solidarity forever my korean brothers

@yemail5555 Год назад

The long working hour has pretty negative long term impacts on both the individual and the country. East Asian countries all have pretty low birth rate and fast aging populations. There must be a balance, the Korean government’s policy will be forced to change by the situation in the near future.

@00Julian00 Год назад

A country needs to be able to protect itself militarily. And that only happens with a strong economy, Which requires sacrifice

@jennifer_mertens Год назад

Studies have shown that 4 day work weeks are more productive than 5 day work weeks. WHY would they raise the workweek to 69 hours a week, the exact opposite?!? They'll work themselves to death before they get to use their accumulated "vacation days". Not to mention, extended work weeks are going to lower birth rates even more. Who's bright idea was this?!?

@Sk-mg6fj Год назад

Work never ends, life does...Make the best out of this life.

@warsame2245 Год назад

working 14 hours a day, 5 day a week is INSANE. That's not life

@robkoper841 Год назад

Josh: "...in America, [the work week is capped at] 40 hours." Well, that was a &%@*ing lie.

@DrewDienno Год назад

Mandatory work dinners sounds like a nightmare.

@roachtoasties Год назад

In Japan, it's even more intense. Watch some videos. It's not only long hours, but commutes on crowded trains to get to work, and more required things to do after work, and don't think about leaving work early unless you're deceased. They get home late only to need to wake up five hours later to repeat this again. I would have perished long ago if I had to do the same.

@ac75911 Год назад

True. I have noticed the Japanese are also a bit against fully remote work too. I respect their culture and more behaved office vibes vs the yelling and immature behavior that can go on in American offices. But I think the Japanese really should embrace fully remote and at least hybrid since they're putting up with such commutes and crowds. Then again, I actually would prefer to take a train to work like them a few days a week and not sit in US freeway traffic ever.

@supercal3944 Год назад

@@ac75911 America > Japan. We have school shooters, child molesters and KKK members, the Japanese don't. Americans are better

@slil5597 Год назад

Korean here In our nation we do not have single natural resources ( few but not like saudian oil shower) Only resource that we had was human resource, and its a miracle to even reach this point of wealth as a nation. ( We used to be the second poorest nation in the world😂 ) The problem with our society is that majority of the labor related law, Is extremly favored to the big corps not to laborers. As a Korean who lived in the states for 10 years and 10 years in Korea, The tension in Korea is just different in terms of education and getting a job. Social peer pressure is off the roof in Korea, and people legit value each other With their job titles and social status. I think this contributes as one of the biggest factor of why Korea ranks NUMBER 1 in sucide rate. This will continue as long as we have corrupted politicians who are born in ivory tower, and if we do not change our societal perspective of 오지랖. God I miss the U.S sometimes man ( NOT SHOOTING NO DRUGS 😂 )

@myownlilbubble Год назад

Mate..Singapore have no natural resources too...only skilled labour force and high literacy rate....and bilingual people. But the mandate working hours is still 40...5 days work week is the norm for office workers. SK work culture is too toxic

@slil5597 Год назад

and TMI we currently work 40 to 52 hours a week. Thats 10 hours a day on average. For fuxk sake, if we get to our job at 8 we go home at 6 ㅋㅋㅋ I used to workout for looks, Now I workout to survive ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ

@segundolizardo6667 Год назад

amazing how the gentleman said wow when presented with the 40 hr week.

@nitroxide17 Год назад

A lot of Americans don’t work 40 hours. I knew many people that work 50 to 60 hours.

@MexicanTeTe Год назад

I once got reprimanded for always leaving work on time. I told the boss that the employees who are staying late only do so because they are inefficient at the job and they want to get paid double for their overtime hours. I was completing double the work load in half the time. I eventually automated my entire job so I could use office hours to work on other projects. Work smarter, not harder.

@spencers4121 Год назад

I killed my employer and took over his business and home....checkmate.

@linearcannon5078 Год назад

They work more hours for sure, but their productivity is 30-40% less than others. Koreans need to focus on how to improve productivity, rather than working longer hours.

@mtnbikr107 Год назад

It's not just the long hours, it's also the fact that unless you were born into the right family within one of the many chaebols within Korea, you have very little prospect of moving up into an executive position. So working 69 hours a week doesn't make you move up, it only benefits the silver spoons who were already born into wealth and privilege.

@cjeygitau6505 Год назад

This is nonsense... Most Countries are reducing work days to 4days a week ...

@b534hng Год назад

Mandatory team dinner??? Just cos we work together doesn’t mean we gotta dine and wine like friends

@K000H Год назад

I work 32 hours a week. I could get more, but i've chosen not to. Those 32 hours get's me just enough to pay all my bills, feed myself and my cats, and have a bit leftover for savings or something nice/fun. The fact that a lot of people are working twice as much as i do gives me secondhand anxiety.

@tomaslopez2940 Год назад

Glad South Koreans are finally doing something about their ridiculous work schedule! I've met South Koreans in the U.S. and they're some of the best people you can ever meet! I hope that they see what a huge problem their work schedule is and that they do something to cut down their work hours to something more reasonable!!

@chrisx5127 Год назад

I couldn't disagree more!

@chrisx5127 Год назад

@GoldenSandwich You generalize an entire group of people. My experiences is different from yours.

@karenkofler3570 Год назад

I totally agree with you about great people. Just some of the best. That's what "generalization" is for; if you see enough of something, it warrants a generalization. From my experience, if you've had a bad experience with Koreans, it's usually because you gave them something bad to begin with. Koreans are one of the most hard working, compassionate and giving people I've had the fortune of knowing and still know. I hope they find the balance they want and need. There's nothing wrong with working hard to achieve something and certainly Koreans have done just that. Kudos!

@alfrilysencarnacion2085 Год назад

you must be white or asian then

@mecha1gold Год назад

Working more hours does not mean more production, it just means you are being exploited.

@Cazador42265 Год назад

Time off for overtime pay, had it's day back in the mid 90's. I was not a fan😶, as it was still up to the employer to approve the requested time off ultimately getting your wages paid at the whim of the employer. "Excuse me, may I have permission to get paid?" That landed me in the doghouse and eventually out the door but it was a positive experience.

@thibault973 Год назад

Workweek cap in France is 35h. It's literally illegal to work more than 48h per week lol (you get a 25% on the 8 extra hours and a 50% on the 4 last hours)...we are even debating to decrease the cap to 32h. 69hrs is wild.

@MikeN-cs8qe Год назад

If this guy didnt come from money I GUARANTEE YOU he is not dropping out of college to “spin records”. My pops woulda hit me in the head with the toaster if I came to him with some BS like that. 🤣

@djm2189 Год назад

Exactly!! All the people and they chose this guy......

@hamburglar83 Год назад

No one works 40 hrs. I was salary in did at min 55. A lot of my workers working “40” were struggling financially or had a second job

@letsgowalk Год назад

So they finally reveal towards the end that this guy is actually a rich kid, and not some normal young person…

@88marome Год назад

It's so bizarre, we should be working less because of the industrial revolution, robots and AI but we're working more?! What for?! "The Jetsons" predicted 3 hour work weeks, where is that dream?

@infini.tesimo Год назад

All this told me was why my grandma decided to marry my grandfather and move to America because we can work less hours and make far more.

@crazygirlfun1 Год назад

Dude said wow when he heard the US has 40 hour work weeks. 🤣 There are people trying to knock it down to 35 hours a week.

@sunnytheboxer. Год назад

Free the people from modern day slavery!

@MrMrsteve01 Год назад

I bet the rich get a lot of time off even though the say the work more. How about Politicians if you call that work.

@777Skeptic Год назад

Hey, having a cocktail party on a private boat with a bunch of people who want to bribe you is a lot of work.

@etrnlygr8tful Год назад

They don't want to cut their hours because that would mean less take home pay, what they don't realize is time spent with family & friends is equally, if not much more valuable.

@francois853 Год назад

What you don't realize is that everyone is different. Just because you value certain things doesn't mean everyone else should too.

@lynn7392 Год назад

I live in South Korea for 5 years. Those team dinners are no joke - they last all night. One year, I finally had to tell my co-workers I wasn’t going to the dinner.

@InternetUser._ Год назад

😂 I wouldn’t have went to any of them. Coworkers are not your friends lol

@Der.Geschichtenerzahler Год назад

@@InternetUser._ Me neither. Both North and South Koreans are slaves, but each one to a different master

@asianstud7 Год назад

😆 🤣 😂 good for you. You're an American and white. So I assume you could get away with it.

@leechrec Год назад

Wow, talk about a waste of time.

@pennyyoung2506 Год назад

@@Der.Geschichtenerzahler Possibly the Japanese are slaves too! It's so weird how many young people want to live in those countries, or think that modern technology comes from them. But nearly all of modern technology came from European minds!

@mrnobody6609 Год назад

They should turn to science. A four day work week increases productivity by an astounding amount. Even after cutting hours and keeping salaries the same everywhere it's been implemented averaged out to a 40% increase in profit overall. There are actually zero cons to a four day work week, only pros. From the janitor to the CEO, everybody wins. It's mind blowing that so few companies have switched to it.

@one4therd2 Год назад

Who works 40 hours a week any more, my average work week is 55!

@djm2189 Год назад

Mines now 30, if o do 40 i feel drained. Dang 55!!! That's crazy.

@kekeke82 Год назад

I mean working hr is okay but Korean cant go vacation two weeks like US. That attitudes givea worng idea to upper leadershup. Curtural impact is different than other contries(G10).

@billcarson1966 Год назад

"In America it's 40 hours " LMFAO I wish! It's 40 if you're hourly. Maybe. But if you're salary, employers today expect you to work 60-70 hours or more. Even when you're off the clock. Basically, you're working 2 jobs and getting paid for one.

@JHZech Год назад

Cyberpunk capitalism in practice. The US should view this as a cautionary tale when politicians call for loosening labor laws. Recently, children working in coal mines was legalized...

@denistraore4116 Год назад

Either the statement was wrong or the US has pretty much the same issue. Koreans working 120 hours a year more than Americans, equates to just working 27 minutes a day on a 5-day work week basis.

@FlyingKoreanMinja Год назад

Work life balance is nonexistent in certain jobs in the US as well. It's definitely not the norm.

@gokinnation1034 Год назад

Korean American here. It is absurd for them to even think that anything past 50 hours per week is going to be productive...I've worked in S. Korea as an independent contractor and saw so many people struggling to find work life balance...it's already bad enough but they are trying to make it worse...smh..

@andrewtalon9929 Год назад

As a Pulmonary/Critical Care fellow in the U.S., we're working up to 80 hours per week getting paid $11 per hour and trying to survive allocating my $4000/month paycheck towards student loans, barely getting by with no support from my parents as my parents are from a lower socioeconomic class. NBC should be addressing this issue.

@spencers4121 Год назад

You have to make sacrifices, I mean think of the poor pharmaceutical companies, medical supply companies and insurances companies. How else will they make their billions in the medical field, if you don't work yourself to death for pennies. Just imagine the patients who have to pay some of the highest medical bills in the world.

@justicedemocrat9357 Год назад

Why not address it yourself and form a union?

@Telencephelon Год назад

Anything below 80 hours is totally unacceptable!!!

@MalenkyGoblin Год назад

There is literally a term in Korean for being worked to death, "kwarosa". The previous President cut working hours from 68 hours a week to 52 hours due to a number of high profile deaths from kwarosa.

@AliAsidqi2 Год назад

Lol, just like Japan but 52 hours seems worse.

@noname-dk7ri Год назад

It originally came from the Japanese term for death by overwork. It is not heard very often in Japan these days.

@yeahiprotest Год назад

Work ethic like that makes sense if you are rebuilding after a war - but once it’s rebuilt - relax a bit

@Dutch_chess Год назад

After the wars, it made sense to push for the economy to boom just so countries like Japan and Korea can keep up with the rest of the world. The need to make money is real. My biggest problem is that how much money is going to be enough? All countries are pushing to make money by sucking as many hours from their citizens. Their birthrates are decreasing on the other hand the cost of living is higher than ever.

@00Julian00 Год назад

At the end of the day the most important thing is for a nation to be able to defend itself and that can only be accomplished with a strong economy Capable of either purchasing are developing weapons If Koreans and Japanese become desperate like the West which also faces a demographic problem? I guess they'll just import a lot of immigrants

@joeswanson733 Год назад

american reporter: america work week is 40 hours south american business owner: O_O

@NissanSkylineVR30 Год назад

This isn't a conversative or liberal, or which country, issue. Its a global issue. Its toxic to force people to work over 40 hours per week. Heck - even 40 hours per week is insane now given the fact that most people can't even afford rent and food. You shouldn't have to work to live. You should live to work. Our society, globally, can't thrive if we are forcing humans to work hours and hours beyond what they can. This reminds of the story here in the USA where Americans are going back to work even after being retired because SSI isn't enough.

@RKKY-mf7fe Год назад

I worked 55hours in Hong Kong a week. Had no life at all. Anything above that is just unthinkable to me.

@pth6060 Год назад

The government is the only one gaining if it's an increased work week. The public ends up not having a life.

@chukim8012 Год назад

Korean American here. Americans dont really work 40 hrs though, as implied by the reporter. We work more like 52 hrs, maybe a little more. Many of us work 2 jobs, well I do anyway.

@jiniqeee Год назад

We Koreans didn't elected President Yoon ; A representative who stands for the Conglomerates 'Jae-Beol'.

@sonnybill8271 Год назад

No thanks, I complain about working a standard 40hr week here in NZ 😳

@rickwhittaker2525 Год назад

What's the birthrate in this country? They definitely don't have time to do the deed.

@aminahmad2595 Год назад

Their birth rate is at 0.82. They will be wiped out probably in less than a hundred years. Alongside not caring about the institution of marriage or parenthood this is a culture that does not respect the laws of nature. You disrespect nature nature it destroys you. This will happen in most western countries as well. A woman’s primary job should be at home having children and creating families.

@zodiacfml Год назад

that is government dumb. SK already has one of the worst birth rate declines and increasing the cap will only put unnecessary burden to most young workers, worsening family creation or birth rates.

@b00mer_gam3r Год назад

Sorry but 69 hours a week? ....69! lmao! It almost sounds like a meme

@r22gamer54 Год назад

69 hours is like 10 hours every day INCLUDING WEEKENDS!!!! and without sunday and saturday thats like 14 hours per day!!!

@ajshaka3212 Год назад

Lol...did yoon honestly think people would be ok with 69 hours a week? Lol

@oppaheimer88 Год назад

How did the government think this was going to go over with its already overworked citizens? They should be do everything they can to change the overwork culture that is destroying its citizens' life and the future of the country.

@mm7846 Год назад

Making me feel better about my 50-55 hrs per week

@AurioDK Год назад

In Denmark we have 38 hours a week and 6 weeks paid vacation, yet we are complaining. WE WANT MORE FREEDOM TO HAVE FUN!!!! ....

@leechrec Год назад

Crazy that all our advancements in technology, etc still leads up to work so much.

@pennyyoung2506 Год назад

If you mean to say that technological advancements are Koreans', or even east Asians', that is historically not true. An extremely high percentage of technological advancements, such as computers, were made by White people. 🤍🤍🤍