PART 02 [SDF2023] Melting Labor and Korea’s Precariat in the Age of Digital Transformation 2023.11.02 All Videos
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Contrary to what South Korea’s accelerated economic growth story and advanced welfare system might suggest, precarity pervades the life of the country’s workers. This session explains the changes being witnessed in the traditional views towards work and companies, the workplace, and even what work likes using the concept of “melting labor” and explores how the boundaries that surround the workplace and labor are becoming increasingly ambiguous. It also looks at why the South Korean welfare state and legal system is failing to provide the institutional protections that workers need amid the remaking of the idea of work. Specifically, it examines the various uncertainties experienced by outsourced workers, irregular employment, freelancers, and platform workers in the country. Different archetypes of the precarious worker in the age of digital transformation are considered through the framework of melting labor, and the tasks facing our systems and our society as a whole are addressed.