Within the project “Issue Paper Series – Labour and Society”, the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung Korea Office has invited national experts to analyse the current trend of socio-economic issues in South Korea and developing future scenarios for “socio-economic justice transition”.

This article attempts to answer the following questions about platform work in South Korea:

- What are the specific characteristics of the industrial relations in the Korean platform economy?

- How does the labor movement react to this phenomena?

- Is there any legal framework, regulations or initiatives for guaranteeing socio-economic justice in the platform economy?