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eamo
Joined: 08 Mar 2003
Location: Shepherd's Bush, 1964.
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 Posted: Mon Sep 26, 2011 11:50 pm Post subject: |
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| myenglishisno wrote: |
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Many Koreans, especially men, say they use drinking to blow off work stress.
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If they regulated the working hours to the point where most Koreans were working 40 hour work weeks and young Koreans were studying for the same amount of time, then very many birds would be killed with one stone.
Productivity in this country is dismal compared to other countries. People are mainly wasting time at work or school then wasting even more time trying to erase their bad memories with alcohol. They could be using that time to build themselves up at home and strengthening the family. Shortening the hours spent at work/school would do nothing but good things for this country.
Just look at the French. They work exactly half the amount of hours as Koreans and they actually get more work done overall.
Unfortunately, this won't even start to happen until everyone who is now above 40 in this country is retired. |
Completely agree.
Shorter work and school hours would do wonders for the quality of life in Korea.........but then, could Korean corporations still compete if they didn't coerce their staff to do 12-hour days? |
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