World's hardest-working countries
South Korea and Greece top the OECD's list of the average number of hours people work a year
Last Updated: Thursday, May 29, 2008 | 9:03 AM ET Comments1Recommend5
By Parmy Olson Forbes
LONDON — If you thought you worked long hours, consider 39-year-old Lee from South Korea. A civil servant at the ministry of agriculture and fisheries, Lee gets up at 5:30 a.m. every day, gets dressed and makes a two-hour commute into Seoul to start work at 8:30 a.m. After sitting at a computer for most of the day, Lee typically gets out the door at 9 p.m., or even later.
By the time he gets home, it's just a matter of jumping in the shower and collapsing into bed, before starting the whole routine all over again, about four hours later.
This happens six days a week, and throughout almost all of the year, as Lee gets just three days of vacation.
That's right. Three days.
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