{"id":74778,"date":"2025-08-18T05:42:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T05:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/74778\/"},"modified":"2025-08-18T05:42:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T05:42:12","slug":"south-korea-eyes-4-5-day-week-to-ease-burden-on-toiling-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/74778\/","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.newsbeep.com\/uk\/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":74779,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[38363,38365,84,38364,1294,2749,8629,11332,38366,56,54,55,5595,7644],"class_list":["post-74778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-45-day","tag-burden","tag-business","tag-ease","tag-economy","tag-eyes","tag-korea","tag-south","tag-toiling","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-week","tag-workers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74778\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}