This is stated by a study by the National Institute of Youth Policies between high school and high school students, in which the working conditions to which adolescents are subjected are also denounced. In cases of exploitation, only 18% file a complaint. Most find employment in restoration or in the creation of online content.
Seoul (Asianews) – More than a third of South Korean adolescents with work experience began working before completing the age of 15, the minimum age established by law, affirms a recent report by the National Institute of Youth Policies, which raises concerns about the Dissemination of child labor in South Korea.
The study, published last month, is based on a survey of 7,212 students of the middle and upper school. Of these, 1,414 declared to have performed a paid job: 34.5% began before the legal age of 15, while 11.3% did it even before the age of 13. In particular, among the students of the middle school the percentage of those who began working before the age of 13 was 31.2%, a significantly greater than 3% that was relieved in the upper schools.
The sectors in which adolescents are most used are restoration (40.1%), weddings (17.1%), the creation of contents for YouTube (13.9%), assistance to events (11.8 %) and the distribution of brochures (11.7%). The report indicates that the growing dissemination of work on digital platforms has favored participation in work activities of younger people, who often do not meet the age requirements established by current legislation.
An alarming fact refers to working conditions: 34.5% of adolescents who said they had worked in the last year declared that they had suffered some kind of abuse, including payments in payments (17.4%), defaults (13.7%) and verbal or sexual harassment (10.1%). Only 17.9% of those who suffered this type of treatment filed a complaint or warned about what happened to the authorities.
Currently, the Labor Legislation of South Korea prohibits the use of children under 15, in accordance with the norms of the International Labor Organization (ILO), which does not allow minors subject to school mandatory to work. However, the report recommends reviewing the legislation to raise the minimum age of access to work from 15 to 16 years, in order to better protect adolescents and guarantee a safer and more regulated work environment.
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