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Korea's minimum wage is set as a single nationwide hourly floor by the Minimum Wage Council each year, applying uniformly regardless of industry or region and covering full-time employees, part-timers, fixed-term workers, and foreign workers alike, with no legal exceptions carving out lower pay for any of these groups.
The claims that it applies only in Seoul or only to full-time workers both misdescribe how the law actually works — there is no regional carve-out for the provinces, and part-time or foreign workers are explicitly covered by the same national rate rather than excluded from it.
Because the rate is announced annually and applies so broadly, it becomes a widely followed economic and political topic each year in Korea, with debates over the increase influencing everything from small-business hiring decisions to part-time student wages.
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