South Korea U-turns on 69-hour working week after youth backlash

69 hour work weeks!! This is a county that needs to liberalize their immigration policy to reduce the pressure on their citizens. People deserve better lives than 10 hours daily with no weekends or 12 hours daily with only Sunday off.

Can't blame them. This was very ill-advised. People need daily rest for health..

And, the government has gall to complain why people aren't happy and aren't producing babies.

As korean, President Yoon is anti korea and villan of korea. Everything of korea is getting worse and worse by him.

Ontop of this doesn't South Korea have abysmal pay and high cost of living compared to nearer countries.

Not super defending this, but it is a maximum hours allowed. Up from 52, which to be fair I think many folks <i>do</i> work, all too regularly (probably many putting in unpaid labor beyond that!).<p>I can imagine being stuck out in nowhere on a job site with some mission to do and being told, no, I have to stop working, and not being pleased about it. Some things make sense to just hurry up and get done with. But that&#x27;s not about anything we&#x27;d expect folks to sustain.