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number of people receiving work through certain platforms such as

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delivery apps is increasing recently.

Now, not only delivery, but also translation and design tasks are often done, and there are criticisms that companies are paying excessive fees.



Reporter Kim Hye-min covered it.



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Yunji Choi has a side job of entering data through three online platforms.



Even simple work requires a lot of time, but the income is all tens of thousands of won per month.



This is because the online platform that linked the work to a small amount of pay takes about 20% commission.




[Yoonji Choi/Online Platform Worker: I work, but I think the platform is the one who earns commissions, so I sometimes feel skeptical when working on it...

.] It is said



that a 20% fee is applied up to 500,000 won per job, and a lower fee rate is applied as the unit price increases. Apply.



[Choi Yunji/Online Platform Worker: Only words are applied differentially (even if you trade 600,000 won), you will receive 20% up to 500,000 won unconditionally...

.]



Besides, most of the work is worth less than 500,000 won, so there is not much left behind after deducting taxes and fees.



While online platforms are competitively trying to get a job, the cost of work is increasing, while there are many people who want to work, so it is difficult for freelance workers to reject high commission rates.



The problem is that there are no standards or regulations to protect workers when it comes to commission rates.



In the case of construction daily workers, it is contrary to the legal regulations requiring that the referral fee is less than 11% of the wage.



[Kim Jong-jin / Senior Research Fellow, Korea Labor and Social Research Institute: Currently, the FTC is not intervening just because of corporate autonomy.

It is a desirable direction for the Fair Trade Commission to present a standard fee rate for each industry.] The



online platform market, where hundreds of thousands of'click workers' are engaged, requires minimum regulations and dispute resolution mechanisms to protect workers.



(Video editing: Soyoung Lee, VJ: Mingu Jung)