SEOUL, KOREA - Nearly nine out of ten Korean workers are working overtime at night at least once a week, according to a survey conducted by a job portal Job Korea.
Job Korea's "Good Work Research Institute" conducted a survey with 1,984 workers in Korea. 86.5 percent of the respondents said that they work overtime at night at least once a week. Only 13.5 percent of the respondents said that they do not work overtime at all.
As for questions regarding the frequency of night overtime work, 53.3 percent of the respondents said that they work overtime at night more than three days a week, followed by 33.2 percent (one or two days a week). 14.7 percent of the repliers said that they had the experience of working overtime even on weekends.
Among the respondents, 59.8 percent of male workers and 47 percent of female workers are turned out to have worked overtime at night more than three days a week.
By age, 22.9 percent of the workers in twenties replied that they work overtime at night two days a week, while 19.3 percent and 23.4 percent of the workers in thirties and forties work overtime at night three days a week.
