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Globalization and labour movement on South Korea in 1990s

  • Korea and Global Affairs
  • Abbr : KGA
  • 2021, 5(6), pp.429-455
  • DOI : 10.22718/kga.2021.5.6.016
  • Publisher : Korea Institute of Politics and Society
  • Research Area : Interdisciplinary Studies > Interdisciplinary Research
  • Received : November 15, 2021
  • Accepted : December 22, 2021
  • Published : December 29, 2021

Jiyoung Kim 1

1National Institute for Unification Education

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ABSTRACT

The aim of this paper is to examine how globalization has influenced the labour movement in South Korea in the 1990s. South Korea has been considered as a state that has experienced the most noticeable labour movement in new industrial countries. As industry promoted by the Korean government had rapid development, labour in South Korea enormously increased between the 1960s and 1980s. Accordingly, the labour movement in South Korea during the three decades grew, despite strong pressure from the government and achieved significant development with the Great Struggle in 1987, and peaked in 1989. However, globalization in South Korea has appeared with an offensive ideology of market supported by the government, a restructuring of the economy including new management, and the Asian financial crisis in the 1990s. This study will explain how the internal and external effects of globalization weakened the labour movement due to the revision of the labour law and the expansion of labour flexibility in Korea.

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