South Korea Ranks 2nd In the OECD for Hours Worked Per Year

What I find most amazing about this report is that Germans on average work four months less a year than Koreans.  This just shows how unproductive the hours by Korean workers likely are when Germans are able to have a manufacturing and export based economy like Korea without the need for long hours:

Company employees and self-employed Koreans worked an average of 2,124 hours per person last year, second only to Mexico, at 2,228 hours.

Koreans work 354 more hours every year than the OECD average of 1,770. This calculates to 6.8 more hours of work each week.

In addition, the average number of hours worked by Koreans rose by 45, up from 2,079 hours in 2013.

Korea had the highest average number of working hours until 2007 when Mexico exceeded this.

The lowest average of working hours is in Germany, at 1,371 hours a year. This is equivalent to eight months of working hours in Korea.  [Korea Times]

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