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3 stories tagged “measurement”, each from official Korean data with its source and timestamp.
Overtime fell 30% — less strain, or less pay?
Korean regular-worker overtime fell from 11.5 hours a month in 2011 to 8.1 in 2025 — down about 30%. Fewer overtime hours can mean a lighter load or a lighter paycheck, and an hours figure will not tell you which.
What Korea's pension's 107% return really measures
Korea's national pension reports a domestic-stock return of 107% for the first half of 2026. That number is real — and it does not mean Korean stocks doubled. Its label, money-weighted and provisional, is the whole story.
Youth joblessness fell — good news, or fewer looking?
Korea's youth jobless rate fell from 9.8% in 2016 to 6.1% in 2025. A falling rate sounds like good news — but the same number falls whether young people find work or simply stop looking. One rate cannot tell the two apart.