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Declaring ‘crisis,’ South Korean firms tell managers to work more

Commuters take a subway home at Sungsu station in Seoul on July 15.

Commuters take a subway home at Sungsu station in Seoul on July 15. | Woohae Cho / The New York Times

By Jin Yu Young
The New York Times

Aug 6, 2024

Seoul – “Back in the day,” said Lim Hyung-kyu, a retired Samsung Electronics executive now in his 70s, “my weeks were Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Friday, Friday.”

Lim joined Samsung, South Korea’s largest company, in 1976 and rose through the ranks to chief technology officer.

For much of his 30-plus years at Samsung, working on the weekends was normal — and legal under the nation’s labor laws.

Amid the heat and humidity in Japan, a good night’s sleep is growing increasingly elusive without the heavy use of air conditioning.

Summer has arrived in Japan and so have hot sleepless nights

By Tomoko Otake

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.

Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

For many people, utility poles and power lines have become such a familiar part of Japan’s landscape that they often go unnoticed.

Why Japan’s utility poles won’t be disappearing anytime soon

By Alex K.T. Martin

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