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ILO Minimum Wage Convention → Korea Minimum Wage Act → Ministry of Employment and Labor

고용노동부 (Ministry of Employment and Labor), 최저임금위원회 (Minimum Wage Commission)

CSuggestive similarity
Evidence tier

Echo patterns are similarity-based hypotheses, not proof of causation. Open the sources and evaluate the linkage yourself.

Evidence Scorecard

Three lenses — wording, timing, documented link. Not a single proof score.

Suggestive similarity
Semantic
Strong semantic alignment
Temporal
Global precedent precedes Korea
Linkage
No recorded linkage
Multilingual semantic similarity
cosine similarity (method detail)0.757

Computed with intfloat/multilingual-e5-small multilingual embeddings. Display score is a calibrated mapping of the raw cross-lingual cosine (0.757); higher means closer meaning. Reflects semantic similarity, not proof of causation.

Could also be…show
  • •Parallel domestic policy development is possible.
  • •Industry or market pressure may have driven similar language.
  • •A common external shock (e.g., financial crisis, pandemic) could explain parallel adoption.

Timeline of the echo

55 year lag
  1. Global

    1970

    ILO (International Labour Organization)

    ilo.org

  2. then Korea
  3. Korea

    2025

    국가법령정보센터 - 최저임금법

    law.go.kr

From date field: 1970 ILO C131 → Korea Minimum Wage Act (1986) → annual minimum wage determination · 1986–2025

Interrogate the Evidence

Answers are rendered directly from this record’s own curated fields — nothing is generated.

Csuggestive similarity · 63%

  • SemanticStrong semantic alignment
  • TemporalGlobal precedent precedes Korea
  • LinkageNo recorded linkage

Matched concepts: ILO Minimum Wage Fixing Convention (C131) ↔ 최저임금법; consultation with social partners ↔ 최저임금위원회 노·사·공익 구성; periodic adjustment ↔ 매년 최저임금 결정·고시

Cross-lingual similarity 17/100 (multilingual e5 embedding) — a computed signal, not proof.

Similarity type: ILO Minimum Wage Convention → Korea Minimum Wage Act | ILO Minimum Wage Fixing Convention (C131) → 최저임금법

Caveat: semantic similarity only — this tier records a hypothesis, not proof of causal influence.

Matched Concepts

3 pairs
ILO Minimum Wage Fixing Convention (C131)
↓
최저임금법
consultation with social partners
↓
최저임금위원회 노·사·공익 구성
periodic adjustment
↓
매년 최저임금 결정·고시

Agenda Arc

Curated

Global purpose, Korean purpose, and precursor stages. Reasoning echo is discourse observation — not proof of coordination.

Global purpose

Carry ILO rules into domestic effect: align Korea Minimum Wage Act under ILO Minimum Wage Convention.

Korean purpose

대한민국은 '최저임금법'에 따라 매년 최저임금을 결정·고시하고 있다. 최저임금위원회가 노·사·공익위원으로 구성되어 심의하며, 2025년 최저임금은 시간당 10,030원으로 결정되었다.

국가법령정보센터 - 최저임금법 — 대한민국은 '최저임금법'에 따라 매년 최저임금을 결정·고시하고 있다. 최저임금위원회가 노·사·공익위원으로 구성되어 심의하며, 2025년 최저임금은 시간당 10,030원으로 결정되었다.

Reasoning echo

Observed framing link: ILO Minimum Wage Convention → Korea Minimum Wage Act | ILO Minimum Wage Fixing Convention (C131) → 최저임금법. Not a claim of coordination.

Started where

ILO (International Labour Organization)

Started how

1970 ILO C131 → Korea Minimum Wage Act (1986) → annual minimum wage determination

  1. Soft lawGlobal1970ILO (International Labour Organization)
    ILO C131

    1970 ILO C131

    Primary source
  2. LegislationKorea1986고용노동부 (Ministry of Employment and Labor)
    Korea Minimum Wage Act (1986)

    Korea Minimum Wage Act (1986)

    Primary source
  3. Soft lawGlobalILO (International Labour Organization)
    annual minimum wage determination

    annual minimum wage determination

Original (Global)

The ILO Minimum Wage Convention① requires a legally binding minimum wage system covering all wage earners.

Echo (Korea)

대한민국은 최저임금법①에 따라 매년 최저임금을 결정·고시③하며, 최저임금위원회②가 노·사·공익위원으로 구성되어 심의한다.

Echo Strength

sourceVerified
hasKoreanSource
hasGlobalSource
hasDate
keywordDiversity
agendaTags

Influence Mechanism

policy learning
Origin
ILO (International Labour Organization)
Timeline

1986–2025

ILO Minimum Wage Convention → Korea Minimum Wage Act | ILO Minimum Wage Fixing Convention (C131) → 최저임금법

Sources

🌍Global source
🇰🇷국가법령정보센터 - 최저임금법

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ILO Working Hours Standards → Korea Working Hours Reform

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ILO Maritime Labour Convention → Korea Seafarers Act

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P(B|A) = 61%category
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P(B|A) = 45%agenda
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Semantically Related

Closest patterns by multilingual embedding (e5) — conceptual similarity beyond shared keywords. A computed signal, not a sourced claim.

ILO Equal Remuneration Convention → Korea Equal Employment Act

Labor & Work

cos 0.91

ILO Core Conventions → Korea Labor Standards Act

Labor & Work

cos 0.91

ILO Maritime Labour Convention → Korea Seafarers Act

Labor & Work

cos 0.90

ILO Core Conventions → Korean Labor Law Reform

Labor & Work

cos 0.89

ILO Convention 190 (Violence & Harassment) → Korean Workplace Harassment Law

Labor & Work

cos 0.89

ILO Working Hours Standards → Korea Working Hours Reform

Labor & Work

cos 0.88
Keywords
ILOminimum wage최저임금최저임금법Minimum Wage Act최저임금위원회Minimum Wage Commission노사공익social partners임금근로자wage earners생계비living wage저임금low wage
Score Guide
Confidence — Editorial A–D tier from semantic, temporal, and linkage evidence.
Echo Strength — Metadata completeness score. Rewards verified sources, paired links, explicit dates, keyword diversity, and origin tags.
Vocabulary Overlap — Heuristic score measuring shared tokens between global and Korean texts. Reflects loanwords and repeated terms, not meaning across languages.
PATTERN #ilo-minimum-wage-1