Global Care Policy Index 2021 Country Report: South Korea

Jiang Haolie and Anju Mary Paul
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Anju Mary Paul: New York University Abu Dhabi

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Abstract: South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea, is a high-income country in East Asia with a population of 51 million. Saddled with patriarchal Confucian traditions, South Korea continues to perform poorly on gender equality issues despite recent state and civil society advocacy. Paid domestic work in South Korea is a highly feminized, stigmatized, and irregular profession that comprises two main groups of workers: older local female workers, and stigmatized co-ethnic diasporic Korean migrant workers of foreign citizenship (mostly Chinese citizens) who are referred to as joseonjok. Despite its poor performance in gender equality measures, South Korea scored well for Sub-index A of the Global Care Policy Index with a score of 7.51 out of 10. This is driven by the country’s relatively strong regulatory frameworks for family caregivers, though the enforcement of these protections is sometimes lacking. South Korea’s comprehensive pregnancy and maternity leave protections, dependent care leave, and flexible work arrangement provisions contributed to its high Sub-Index A score, while its inadequate and underdeveloped employment protections for domestic workers resulted in a poorer performance of 6.34 out of 10 in Sub-Index B. Overall, South Korea scored 6.92 out of 10 for the GCPI as a whole.

Date: 2022-04-21
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