[Vol.449]
Students in Seoul have hard time with studying and low-wage work




Kim, a 20-year-old student at a university in the Sinchon area of Seoul, is from the countryside. As soon as she started university, she got a parttime job to pay for her living expenses. Her family covers her tuition and rent, but she needs more to get by in Seoul. (…)

At first, Kim looked into teaching private lessons. She figured it would be easy to find tutoring work in Seoul. She imagined she would be on easy street. (…)

But even in the world of private lessons, there are “silver spoons” and “dirt spoons” ? slang expressions that Koreans use to describe the haves and the have nots. Kim’s friends who had grown up in Seoul’s affluent Gangnam neighborhood easily landed tutoring gigs, but it wasn’t easy for a student with no connections in Seoul to find any. K im landed a part-time job at a baker y franchise located in Mapo. She works there on Mondays and Thursdays. (…)

With her job at the bakery chain and her parttime gigs, Kim makes 400,000 to 500,000 won a month. Since her family doesn’t live in Seoul, her fixed expenses are considerable: an average of 34,500 a month on medicine, 50,000 for transportation, 50,000 on cosmetics and toiletries, 46,690 for her mobile phone, 50,000 for books, 250,000 for food and 20,000 for clothing. At the end of the month, she has no money left. (…)

“From an early age, I’ve been told that you can succeed if you work hard. But when I got to university, my values were shattered. Working 40 hours isn’t enough to live a decent life. I think the minimum wage should be 10,000 won (US$8.90) at least,” Kim said.

The minimum wage for 2017 was set at 6,470 won, which was 440 won (7.3%) higher than the 2016 rate. This was far lower than the demands made by labor activists and NGOs, which wanted the rate set at 10,000 won or at least a double-digit increase. The minimum wage affects the lives of 3.42 million people in South Korea, or one in five wage laborers. Working 40 hours a week at minimum wage adds up to 1,352,230 won a month. During his state of the union address in Jan. 2015, US President Barack Obama said, “If you truly believe you could work full-time and support a family on less than US$15,000 a year, try it.” South Korea’s politicians and business people ought to be asked a similar question: “Do you think you could support your family on 1,352,230 won a month? If so, you should try it yourself.”


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