2019년 5월 기준, 한국의 노동제한 시간은 몇 시간인가?
The reasons why Koreans work for long time are Korean industrial system and night cultures. Like Japanese corporate cultures that have penchant of subcontracting due to the hierarchical order of Japanese industry, South Korea has similar corporate cultures. Even though Korea has a statutory working week of 40 hours and allows 12 hours of paid overtime on weekdays and 16 hours on weekends, manufacturing industries such as automobile industry have to operate 24 hours because the more subcontracting factories run, the more they can get profit. In addition, night cultures of Korea make workers work for a long time. For example, cafes, transportations, pubs, restaurants, private study rooms, shopping malls, and fast food restaurants are operating 24 hours. The facilities are useful, but it means workers work for long hours. Although the statutory standard work time (also called Labor Standard Act) exists, regulations of the Korean government are barely weak and employees violate the Act. In reality, therefore, Korean workers have long time working hours.
40 hours and allows 12 hours of paid overtime on weekdays and 16 hours on weekends