Quiet quitting: Why more than half of South Koreans do it

The survey showed that 57.4 per cent of South Korea’s workers between their eighth and 10th years of work have quietly quit. - UNSPLASH

SEOUL: More than half of South Korea’s workers are choosing to do minimal work at their jobs without actually resigning, a survey showed on March 26, indicating that the global trend of “quiet quitting” is growing more prominent among workers here.

Local job search website Incruit recently conducted a survey of 1,097 employees across the country about quiet quitting, in which 51.7 per cent said they have done so.