Contents: Introduction -- Part I. Preliminary steps to understanding employment and industrial relations in South Korea / Byoung-Hoon Lee -- 1. Viewing Korean employment and industrial relations / Young-Myon Lee and Bruce E. Kaufman -- 2. The historical development of employment and labor...

The Evolution of Korean Industrial and Employment Relations explores current employment and workplace relations practice in South Korea, tracing their origins to key historical events and giving cultural, politico-economic and global context to the inevitable cultural adaptation in one of Asia's...

pt. 1. Putting change in context -- pt. 2. Emerging dynamics in labour markets -- pt. 3. China's changing workplace : emerging divergence -- pt. 4. Change, divergence and disparity : some consequences.