Changwon The KTX fast train could get us to the drop off near Changwon in a little over 2 1/4 hours to prevent a 5 hour drive. To make the 9 AM train meant leaving the Y at 830 AM, and that meant skipping running in order to get up at 6 AM …
Month: November 2007
Unemployed Organizations
Seoul and Incheon City We took the metro out to Incheon City, moving from the 10 million person Seoul to the 2.7 million person industrial town of Incheon. In the wake of the unemployment created by the IMF currency crises 10 years ago, there was unemployment particularly in the manufacturing sector that had been …
Irregular Workers
Seoul Korea has had an excellent set of labor legislation, providing good protections. They were too good perhaps in the view of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), which made gutting some of them a condition for bailout loans during the financial crisis here. It turns out that part of the impetus behind my …