Even if the strike by workers at Samsung Electronics is brought to an end soon, it has served to highlight once again the inflexibility of Korea’s labour market and the poor state of industrial relations in the country. The poor showing of President Yoon Suk-yeol’s PPP party in April’s parliamentary elections means there is little chance of any meaningful reform in this area.
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