00:02you're listening to AI prism from Seoul economic daily if you're in your first five years at a
00:08Korean company three stories from this week affect you directly posco's union just set
00:14a strike deadline for September 9th over wages but also over understaffing and safety and a data
00:21leak at CJ exposed personal information for 330 employees most of them women in their 20s and 30s
00:29it's Friday August 28th let's talk about a trend affecting young professionals in Korea
00:36posco's labor union has drawn a hard line on next month's wage negotiations tying its demands to
00:42chronic understaffing and long hours as much as pay separately a former CJ group employee was referred
00:49to prosecutors for leaking personal data on hundreds of co-workers through a private messaging
00:55channel and a new remote work pilot in Busan is testing whether young professionals can build a
01:01career without moving to Seoul at all here's what the numbers show posco's union set September 9th as
01:09its deadline for wage talks threatening a 48-hour partial strike if management doesn't move the
01:16union is asking for a 7.1 percent base pay raise plus a 600 percent incentive bonus a package management
01:24says
01:24would cost 1.4 trillion won twice last year's demand a strike would break 58 years without a work
01:33stoppage at posco after 92.17 percent of union members voted in favor last month a former CJ employee leaked
01:43names job titles phone numbers and photos for roughly 330 employees mostly women in their 20s and 30s to a
01:52telegram channel with 2800 members souls busan based remote work pilot connected local designers developers and AI
02:01specialists to companies in Seoul and overseas using a 130 million won incentive fund the city won for job innovation
02:11souls own birth rate is rebounding to with births rising 18.7 percent in the first half of this year
02:18the fastest of any region in the country as
02:21marriages recover alongside it so what does this mean for early career professionals earlier we said the CJ leak mostly
02:30affected women in their 20s and 30s if you work at a large conglomerate it's worth checking how your employer
02:37handles
02:38internal HR data since this wasn't an outside hack if posco strike goes ahead watch for ripple effects on manufacturing
02:46wage benchmarks
02:47more broadly since successful demands there tend to set a reference point for other unions this bargaining
02:53season and if relocating for work isn't appealing busan's remote work model is an early sign that Seoul may
03:01no longer be the only path to a strong career in Korea that's today's AI prism early careers this episode
03:10was
03:11produced with AI assistance based on Seoul economic daily reporting and reviewed by a human editor
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