Weird employment situation in Korea

  Speaking of the movie 'The Secret Life of Walter Mitty', I have to tell you this.

  The forms of employment are normally divided by two categories. One is full-time, regular workers, and the other is part-time, non-regular workers. But you will see that the forms of employment are so various, weird and twisted, and not respected.

  Before the financial crisis in Asia around 1990s, people thought that two forms enough. But after the crisis, they learned about clear out or mass dismissal. They used it to make the company survive, then. And then the form of outsourcing has been introduced. And other forms of non regular employments.

  The problem and accused is that the companies in Korea are making too many non regular employments against Labour Act. One example: There was a car assembly factory, but there were no one hired regular employment with full benefits. No one? None! The factory have had only non regular employments even if the man worked for years and years of extra working hours.

  Problem is the company is making non regular employments in order to reduce labour costs and keep easy to fire even to the positions which need to be regular. Factory with no regular worker, restaurant with no regular chef, taxi company with no regular driver. Can you imagine it? You need not to imagine. You just watch it. The government made all these sort of employment to escape the financial crisis. But the companies are still abusing employment system. Even if you work in same job descriptions for full time for years in company, you are still paied as an old part-timers. Now, anyone wants to be hired can only expect non regular employment, except for a little numbers of major companies.

  This situation is not right and not good for the entire economy. Workers are consumers. The less income of consumer make the less sales of industry. This will lead deeper recession , eventually. But the companies are still enjoying their power in employment market. They must be stopped.