Güney Kore’de Sendikal Örgütlenmeye Karşı Tutumlar: Samsung, Hyundai, LG Grup Örnekleri Üzerinden Bir Değerlendirme

Year 2021, Volume: 11 Issue: 3, 995 - 1010, 25.11.2021

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Abstract

Geçtiğimiz altmış yıl içerisinde Japon sömürge yönetiminden, Kore savaşına, askeri yönetimlerden demokratikleşme hareketine kadar birçok zorlu ekonomik, siyasi ve sosyal değişimleri atlatan Güney Kore, bu süreçte sanayileşmesini tamamlamış ve gelişmiş ülkeler arasındaki yerini sağlamlaştırmıştır. Bugün ülke ekonomisi üzerinde önemli etkileri bulunan chaebollerin, sanayileşmenin başından itibaren önemli birer aktör olmaları sebebiyle ülkenin endüstri ilişkileri sisteminin gelişmesinde de önemli payları bulunmaktadır. Güney Kore’de emek rejimi ve endüstriyel ilişkiler sistemini etkileyen önemli olayların yanı sıra çalışma ilişkilerinin önemli aktörlerinden biri olan chaebolleri ve chaebollerin endüstri ilişkileri üzerindeki etkilerini incelemek ülkedeki endüstri ilişkilerine ilişkin yaklaşımları anlayabilmek açısından önem arz etmektedir. Bu bakış açısıyla, Kore’de kalkınma planları ve sonrasında ekonomik gelişme sürecinde yaşanan olayların da değinildiği bu çalışmada; Kore endüstri ilişkilerinde sendikal örgütlemenin yanı sıra, endüstri ilişkilerinin önemli birer paydaşı olan chaebollerin endüstri ilişkilerine ilişkin yaklaşımları betimsel analiz yoluyla, ülkenin en büyük beş chaebolü arasında gösterilen Samsung, Hyundai ve LG Grup örnekleri üzerinden ele alınarak ortaya koyulmaya çalışılmıştır. Araştırmanın sonucunda, kuruluşlarından günümüze endüstri ilişkileri açısından birçok deneyime sahip olan ve çalışmaya konu olan bu chaebollerin, yasalar çerçevesinde farklı endüstri ilişkileri yaklaşımları olduğu tespit edilmiştir.

Keywords

Güney Kore,, Endüstri İlişkileri,, Sendikal Örgütlenme, Sendika, Chaebol

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Attitudes Towards Union Organization in South Korea: An Evaluation of Samsung, Hyundai, LG Group Examples

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South Korea underwent several economic, political and social changes such as the Japanese colonial administration, the Korean War, military administrations, the democratization movement before completing its industrialization and ranking among the developed countries in the past sixty years. Today, chaebols, who have had worthy effects on the country's economy since the beginning of the industrialization process, also have an essential role in the country's industrial relations system. Therefore, in addition to the leading experiences affecting the labour regime and industrial relations system in South Korea, it is also crucial to examine the chaebols and their effects on industrial relations to understand the approaches to industrial relations within the country. From this point of view in this study, besides discussing the events in Korea's economic development process; union organization in Korean industrial relations and the approaches of the chaebols were revealed through descriptive analysis, with the examples of Samsung, Hyundai and LG Group, which are among the five largest chaebols of the country. As a result, chaebols that are subject to this study have had many experiences in terms of industrial relations since their establishment. But in the end, it has been determined that they all have different industrial relations' approaches within the framework of the law.

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South Korea, Industrial Relations, Trade Union, Unionisation, Chaebol

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