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Al Jazeera
Al Jazeera
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Junhyup Kwon

South Korea trials 4-day weeks and half-days for its stressed-out workers

Pedestrians walk across a road in the Gangnam district of Seoul on August 12, 2022 [Anthony Wallace/AFP]

Seoul, South Korea – Go Kyoung-min, 34, a nurse at Severance Hospital in Seoul, found a new sense of balance in her life during the first half of this year.

As the mother of twin daughters born in 2021, Go often felt guilty about not spending enough time with her children because of work.

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