{"id":53451,"date":"2023-03-15T20:53:21","date_gmt":"2023-03-15T11:53:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/mar\/15\/south-korea-u-turns-on-69-hour-working-week-after-youth-backlash"},"modified":"2023-03-16T07:08:44","modified_gmt":"2023-03-15T22:08:44","slug":"south-korea-u-turns-on-69-hour-working-week-after-youth-backlash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=53451","title":{"rendered":"South Korea U-turns on 69-hour working week after youth backlash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Protesters claim proposed increase in hours would risk health and fail to boost low birth rate<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/south-korea\">South Korea<\/a>\u2019s government has been forced to rethink a planned rise in working hours after a backlash from younger people who said the move would destroy their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/money\/work-life-balance\">work-life balance<\/a> and put their health at risk.<\/p>\n<p>The government had intended to raise the maximum weekly working time to 69 hours after business groups complained that the current cap of 52 hours was making it difficult to meet deadlines.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/mar\/15\/south-korea-u-turns-on-69-hour-working-week-after-youth-backlash\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Protesters claim proposed increase in hours would risk health and fail to boost low birth rateSouth Korea\u2019s government has been forced to rethink a planned rise in working hours after a backlash from younger people who said the move would destroy their&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":151,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,222,1850,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-south-korea","category-work-careers","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53451"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53467,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53451\/revisions\/53467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}