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ILO Working Hours Standards → Korea Working Hours Reform → Ministry of Employment and Labor

고용노동부 (Ministry of Employment and Labor)

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)0.783

Computed with intfloat/multilingual-e5-small multilingual embeddings. Display score is a calibrated mapping of the raw cross-lingual cosine (0.783); 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

  1. Global year not parsed
  2. then Korea
  3. Korea

    2025

    국가법령정보센터 - 근로기준법

    law.go.kr

From date field: ILO working hours standards → 2018 Korea 52-hour workweek → 2023 reform discussions · 2018–2025

Interrogate the Evidence

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

Csuggestive similarity · 65%

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

Matched concepts: ILO Hours of Work standards ↔ 주 최대 52시간제; forty-hour week ↔ 기본 40시간 + 연장 12시간; work-life balance ↔ 유연근로제 도입 추진

Cross-lingual similarity 33/100 (multilingual e5 embedding) — a computed signal, not proof.

Similarity type: ILO Working Hours Standards → Korea Working Hours Reform | ILO Hours of Work standards → 주 최대 52시간제

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

Matched Concepts

3 pairs
ILO Hours of Work standards
↓
주 최대 52시간제
forty-hour week
↓
기본 40시간 + 연장 12시간
work-life balance
↓
유연근로제 도입 추진

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 Working Hours Reform under ILO Working Hours Standards.

Korean purpose

대한민국은 '근로기준법' 개정을 통해 2018년 7월부터 주 최대 52시간제(기본 40시간 + 연장 12시간)를 단계적으로 시행하였다. 2021년 5인 이상 사업장으로 확대 적용되었으며, 2023년 '근로시간 제도 개편' 논의를 통해 ILO 기준에 부합하는 유연근로제 도입을 추진 중이다.

국가법령정보센터 - 근로기준법 — 대한민국은 '근로기준법' 개정을 통해 2018년 7월부터 주 최대 52시간제(기본 40시간 + 연장 12시간)를 단계적으로 시행하였다. 2021년 5인 이상 사업장으로 확대 적용되었으며, 2023년 '근로시간 제도 개편' 논의를 통해 ILO 기준에 부합하는 유연근로제 도입을 추진 중이다.

Reasoning echo

Observed framing link: ILO Working Hours Standards → Korea Working Hours Reform | ILO Hours of Work standards → 주 최대 52시간제. Not a claim of coordination.

Started where

ILO (International Labour Organization)

Started how

ILO working hours standards → 2018 Korea 52-hour workweek → 2023 reform discussions

  1. Soft lawGlobalILO (International Labour Organization)
    ILO working hours standards

    ILO working hours standards

    Primary source
  2. StageKorea2018고용노동부 (Ministry of Employment and Labor)
    Korea 52-hour workweek

    2018 Korea 52-hour workweek

    Primary source
  3. Soft lawGlobal2023ILO (International Labour Organization)
    reform discussions

    2023 reform discussions

Original (Global)

The ILO establishes international standards① for working hours and promotes work-life balance③.

Echo (Korea)

대한민국은 근로기준법 개정을 통해 주 최대 52시간제①를 시행하고, ILO 기준에 부합하는 유연근로제 도입을 추진③ 중이다.

Echo Strength

sourceVerified
hasKoreanSource
hasGlobalSource
hasDate
keywordDiversity
agendaTags

Influence Mechanism

policy learning
Origin
ILO (International Labour Organization)
Timeline

2018–2025

ILO Working Hours Standards → Korea Working Hours Reform | ILO Hours of Work standards → 주 최대 52시간제

Sources

🌍Global source
🇰🇷국가법령정보센터 - 근로기준법

Related Patterns

ILO Core Conventions → Korea Labor Standards Act

ILO
P(B|A) = 62%category
44%

ILO OSH Convention → Korea Serious Accidents Punishment Act

ILO
P(B|A) = 71%temporal
42%

ILO Occupational Safety and Health Convention → Korea OSH Act

ILO
P(B|A) = 36%agenda
41%

ILO Minimum Wage Convention → Korea Minimum Wage Act

ILO
P(B|A) = 61%category
41%

ILO Equal Remuneration Convention → Korea Equal Employment Act

ILO
P(B|A) = 61%category
41%

ILO Forced Labour Convention No. 29 & Korea Anti-Trafficking Framework

ILO
P(B|A) = 71%temporal
41%

ILO Maritime Labour Convention → Korea Seafarers Act

ILO
P(B|A) = 61%category
41%

ILO OSH Conventions (C155/C187) → Korea Industrial Safety & Serious Accidents Act

ILO
P(B|A) = 35%agenda
40%

Semantically Related

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

ILO Core Conventions → Korean Labor Law Reform

Labor & Work

cos 0.90

ILO Core Conventions → Korea Labor Standards Act

Labor & Work

cos 0.90

KORUS FTA Chapter 19 (Labor) → 노동조합법·근로기준법 개정 (Labor Law Reform for KORUS)

Labor & Work

cos 0.89

ILO Maritime Labour Convention → Korea Seafarers Act

Labor & Work

cos 0.89

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

Labor & Work

cos 0.88

ILO Forced Labour Convention No. 29 & Korea Anti-Trafficking Framework

Labor & Work

cos 0.88
Keywords
ILOworking hours노동시간주52시간제52-hour workweek근로기준법Labor Standards Actwork-life balance일생활균형overtime연장근로유연근로제flexible workdecent work괜찮은일자리
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-working-hours-1