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Previously in September of last year, National AssemblymanKim Jun Hyukof the Democratic Party of Korea proposed an amendment to the ‘Act for the Development of the Popular Culture and Arts Industries’, calling for the reduction of maximum working hours for teenage entertainers including K-Pop idols, trainees, and child actors.
The bill stipulates that teenage entertainers should be subject to the same limitations as outlined in the ‘Labor Standards Act’, and that different limitations should be applied to different age groups.
Under current laws, teenage entertainers aged 15 and older are allowed to work up to 46 hours per week.
However, the ‘Labor Standards Act’ limits the working hours of teenagers in the same age group to a maximum of 40 hours per week.
The proposed amendment would then reduce the maximum working hours for teenage entertainers aged 15 and older from 46 hours to 40 hours per week.
Now, on February 13 KST, theKorea Music Content Association (KMCA)issued an official statement opposing this amendment, claiming that the amendment is being pushed"without sufficient discussion with the recording industry"and"portrays the entire music industry as unfair without a proper examination of the industry’s current environment."
The KMCA statement is as follows:
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