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minimum wage for next year has been set at 9,160 won per hour. This is an increase of 5.1%, or 440 won from this year, and if you calculate it as a monthly salary, it is a little over 1.91 million won. As it has been every year, both labor and management are not satisfied this year.



There are a lot of complaints from both the labor community, who insisted on an hourly wage of 10,000 won, and the business community, that the burden is greater due to the corona virus.



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Minimum Wage Committee heard the possibility of a recovery in the Korean economy as the background for the 5% increase.



[Kwon Soon-won/Minimum Wage Committee Public Interest Member: Shouldn't we consider the possibility that the economy will normalize and recover next year? I mainly used forecasts related to this year's economic growth rate, etc.]



Prime Minister Kim Bu-gyeom came up to the labor and management circles, who were fiercely opposed throughout the deliberation, and asked for it to be accepted, but both sides strongly objected.



Business circles feared that the situation for small business owners and the self-employed, who are being hit by social distancing, would worsen.



[Kim Seon-ae / Head of Wage HR Policy Team, Gyeongchongchong: I am concerned that it will push small businesses and small business owners to the limit. Vulnerable workers are also pushed out of the labor market (expected)] The



Convenience Store Owners' Council said, "If you subtract labor costs and rent from sales, the net profit of store owners is about 2 million won." There are a lot of convenience stores.”



The labor community, especially the KCTU, said, "The current government's promise of a minimum wage of 10,000 won was only a torture of hope." They said, "We will go on a general strike in the second half of the year to resolve inequality and polarization."



[Han Sang-jin / KCTU spokesman: It's very to the fundamental purpose going to reduce the income gap, increase rates two to five percent, so much ordinary workers and the wage of minimum wage workers are still to be held further apart -



the voice does not organized by various associations There are many opinions that the situation of low-wage workers, which is difficult to pay, should also be considered.



It is necessary to find ways to improve the system so that both sides can coexist outside the frame of conflict between B and B between small business owners and low-wage workers that recurs every year.



(Video coverage: Park Hyun-cheol, Kim Min-cheol, video editing: Lee Seung-yeol)