Dissatisfaction over salary and benefits is said to be the leading cause.
Recent numbers show that South Korea’s workers have a relatively low level of satisfaction towards their jobs and life in general, which is possibly why so many are choosing to do only the bare minimum at work.
The term, coined in the early 2020s, refers to an employee doing only the bare minimum of what is required of his job and putting no extra time or effort into it, so as not to put work at the centre of his life. According to proponents, it is “quitting the idea of going above and beyond” one’s responsibilities at work, and instead putting the majority of one’s time and efforts into other things that matter in one’s life.
Statistics by the Organisation of Economic Cooperation and Development showed that life satisfaction in South Korea was 35th among the 38 OECD member states as at 2022. Rating their general satisfaction with life on a scale from 0 to 10, South Koreans on average gave a 5.95.
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