Plan to Allow 69-Hour Work Week Upsets Gen Zs, Millennials in South Korea
- MZ generation of millennials and Gen Z opposed the plan
- South Koreans already work 199 hours above OECD average
Long working hours have been cited as one of the factors behind the country having the world’s lowest fertility rate.
Photographer: SeongJoon Cho/Bloomberg
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South Korea will reconsider its plan to raise the maximum weekly work hours to 69 after its “MZ Generation” of millennials and Generation Z members balked at the idea many saw as destroying a healthy work-life balance.
The office of President Yoon Suk Yeol instructed relevant agencies to reconsider plans to revise the current cap of 52 hours and “communicate better with the public, especially with Generation Z and millennials,” press secretary Kim Eun-hye said in a statement Tuesday.