{"id":6426,"date":"2025-08-18T05:20:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T05:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/6426\/"},"modified":"2025-08-18T05:20:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T05:20:11","slug":"south-korea-eyes-4-5-day-week-to-ease-burden-on-toiling-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/6426\/","title":{"rendered":"South Korea eyes 4.5-day week to ease burden on toiling workers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/economy\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Economy<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleHeader_newsArticleHeaderSubtitle__ZlvPp\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">Improving productivity will be key to success<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/9\/0.jpeg\" alt=\"20250817N South Korean commuters\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">South Korea logged the sixth-longest hours per worker per year in 2024 among the 36 OECD members for which data was available. (Yonhap)<\/p>\n<p>ERIKA KOBAYASHI<\/p>\n<p>August 18, 2025 06:30 JST<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">SEOUL &#8212; As South Korea considers a four-and-a-half-day workweek to lower its chronically long hours, many issues will need addressing, such as maintaining wages and workloads.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Economy Improving productivity will be key to success South Korea logged the sixth-longest hours per worker per year&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6427,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[174],"tags":[6573,6575,79,6574,179,18,6572,19,17,6571,6570,6576,4287,2795],"class_list":{"0":"post-6426","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-45-day","9":"tag-burden","10":"tag-business","11":"tag-ease","12":"tag-economy","13":"tag-eire","14":"tag-eyes","15":"tag-ie","16":"tag-ireland","17":"tag-korea","18":"tag-south","19":"tag-toiling","20":"tag-week","21":"tag-workers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6426\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}