https://www.scmp.com/rss/328891/feed en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Early on the morning of October 12 last year, 27-year-old Jang Deok-joon came home after working his overnight shift at South Korean e-commerce giant Coupang and jumped into the shower. He had worked at the company’s warehouse in the southern city of Daegu for a little over a year, hauling crates full of items ready to be shipped to delivery hubs. When he did not come out of the bathroom for more than an hour and a half, his father opened the door to find him unconscious and curled in a ball in... https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/long-reads/article/3137503/death-injury-inhuman-conditions-korean-amazon?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/long-reads/article/3137503/death-injury-inhuman-conditions-korean-amazon?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 19 Jun 2021 03:04:30 +0000 “I went bankrupt six times. I lost all the money entrusted to me by my mother,” said stock trader Kim Ki-nam. “I planned to kill myself by throwing myself off a cliff over a creek.” Kim pitched his tent in the mountains, but “didn’t have the courage to die”. He contemplated the tree branches swaying, building a new philosophy about the stock market: “You don’t see the wind that’s moving the branches. What is essential is invisible to the eye.” In the 18 years since then, Kim, 44, who runs a... https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/economics/article/2169428/giant-killers-shareholder-ants-taking-south-koreas-scandal-hit?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/economics/article/2169428/giant-killers-shareholder-ants-taking-south-koreas-scandal-hit?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 22 Oct 2018 00:00:00 +0000