Lee "Working 120 Hours Is Difficult"... Yoon "Must Consider Economic and Industrial Realities"

Lee Jae-myung of the Democratic Party, Sim Sang-jung of the Justice Party, Ahn Cheol-soo of the People’s Party, and Yoon Seok-youl of the People Power Party, presidential candidates (from left), are posing for a commemorative photo before the start of the 2022 presidential candidate invitation debate hosted by the Korea Journalists Association and jointly organized by six broadcasting companies at the Maeil Business Newspaper Media Center in Jung-gu, Seoul, on the 11th. Photo by the National Assembly Press Photographers Group

[Asia Economy Reporter Baek Kyunghwan] Lee Jae-myung, the presidential candidate of the Democratic Party of Korea, and Yoon Seok-yeol, the presidential candidate of the People Power Party, showed differing positions on the reduction of working hours.

On the 11th, during the '2nd TV Debate' hosted by the Korea Journalists Association, Candidate Lee said to Candidate Yoon, "Working hours should be gradually reduced, but young people are dying from crunch time," adding, "There are young people who died from overwork after working 96 or 86 hours, so working 120 hours is difficult."

In response, Candidate Yoon said, "No one dislikes reducing working hours, but shouldn't it be done considering the reality of our economic industry?"

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