Credit Guidelines
About Department
1. Labor Law
The Department of Labor Law was established with the aim of fostering labor law experts useful in practice and industrial fields through in-depth research on the legal system that resolves conflicts between labor and management. Graduates and current students of the Department of Labor Law are composed of not only legal practitioners such as judges and lawyers, but also personnel and labor management managers of each company, labor union activists, government officials in related fields, and certified public labor attorneys, who are currently engaged in prominent activities in various fields.
The main characteristics of the subject content of the Department of Labor Law are as follows.
First, it focuses on more theoretically and thoroughly researching the labor law system. Through this, it fosters objective and fair resolution to disputes and conflict cases related to labor law.
Second, it is promoting field-oriented learning to seek legal solutions while dealing with not only the theoretical aspect but also all the problems currently occurring in the industrial field. Since theories that have left the field alone cannot sufficiently fulfill the mission of law, it is creating a place for learning to consider and solve problems together based on the experiences of workers in each field.
Third, the members of the Department of Labor Law are widely distributed in labor, management, government, and the practical business affairs, so they can have a broad perspective through extensive dialogue and discussion in class.
Fourth, the Department of Labor Law provides many opportunities to approach labor issues from the perspective of other adjacent studies (industrial relations, labor economics, and labor welfare policy) in addition to the legal aspect.
Based on the above characteristics, the Department of Labor Law is positioned as a leading educational institution that fosters key personnel in Korea's labor-related fields.
2. Industrial relations
Industrial relations can be defined as interrelationships between labor, management, and the government, including workers and managers who are direct parties to labor relations, and the government that establishes regulations on labor-management policies, collective bargaining, and labor-management disputes in their realtionships. In traditional industrial relations, efforts have been focused on maintaining industrial peace and establishing reasonable industrial relations in order to resolve the inevitable conflict or dispute of interest arising from distribution justice or conflicts between workers and managers.
On the other hand, under the recognition that joint efforts and trust between labor, management, and government to strengthen national competitiveness along with enhancing corporate productivity, productive industrial relations and industrial culture have recently been paid much attention and effort to promote mutual cooperation and coexistence, such as distributing performance through productivity growth, participating in management where workers and unions share management authority and responsibilities, and establishing labor-management partnerships in human resource development.
The department of industrial relations, established to fulfill its role and responsibilities as a cradle for fostering Korea's representative labor-management experts, aims to help students understand systematic and creative problems in overall labor-management relations issues, including rational resolution of labor-management conflicts and the establishment of labor-management partnerships in industries and policy sites. The current students are composed of labor experts including certified public labor attorneys, private and public sector personnel/labor managers, related government officials, and labor workers. Graduates are passionately active as industrial experts in each field based on high ties between companion as well as practical exchanges.
3. Labor Economics
Economics is the study of the choices made by economic players such as consumers, producers, and the government in situations where resources are limited. Labor demand occurs because consumers can earn profits from producing and selling desired products, and labor supply occurs because the income earned through work can be used for consumption to obtain utility.
Labor economics studies topics such as producers' labor demand, workers' labor supply, employment and wage decisions in the labor market, compensatory wage gaps, investment in human capital such as education and training, information asymmetry between labor demanders and labor suppliers, discrimination against specific groups, job search and unemployment, understanding trade unions, and the government's role in addressing income inequality and poverty.
In order to properly understand social phenomena and present reasonable alternatives, it is essential to quantitatively evaluate the situation in the labor market using actual data and estimate the effectiveness of economic policies with specific figures. In addition to the theory of labor economics, the educational content of the Department of Labor Economics emphasizes basic methodologies of statistics and econometric data, as well as empirical analysis using cross-sectional data and panel data.
The Department of Labor Economics aims to cultivate labor economy experts who have both in-depth economic thinking and systematic analysis skills. If you are interested in objectively understanding and empirically analyzing labor market phenomena, or if you are working in fields that require economists such as government/relationships and various administrative agencies or media, the Department of Labor Economics may be an appropriate option.
4. Labor Welfare Policy
Labor Welfare Policy are the subjects of education and research in the Department of Labor Welfare Policy. The main content of labor policy is the government's policies that affect labor-management relations, working conditions, employment and labor markets. However, the fields of employment policy, personnel policy, and labor condition formation within micro-companies are also important parts of labor policy research.
Welfare policy covers all welfare policy fields related to workers. In other words, welfare policies in the field of production that directly affect workers' working conditions, such as industrial accident insurance, employment insurance, employment policy, education and training policy, are the subject of priority interest in the departments of Labor Welfare Policy.
In addition, welfare policies that promote workers' welfare outside the production area are not neglected. In particular, systems belonging to the five major social insurance systems, such as pension system, health insurance system, and long-term care insurance, and social assistance system, are the main interests of the Department of Labor Welfare Policy.
The characteristic of this major is the integrated analysis and research of labor policy and welfare policy. Unlike other graduate schools, the Department of Labor Welfare Policy at the Graduate School of Labor Studies places importance on the relationship between welfare policy and labor policy. Therefore, it is an important task for this graduate school to analyze the relationship between welfare policy and labor policy and to study the desirable combination method. In addition, the characteristic of this graduate school is to approach research from a comprehensive perspective. In the study of labor policy and welfare policy, this graduate school intends to apply the perspectives of all related disciplines such as sociology, politics, and economics in an integrated manner.
As the Department of Labor Welfare Policy is formed in an interdisciplinary connection, it provides a wide range of opportunities to access other majors of the Graduate School of Labor Studies and opens its own subjects of labor policy and welfare policy.
5. Labor Relations Human Resource Management
There may be many implications for expressing the contemporary era, but from the perspective of a manager who manages an organization as a collection of human resources, it is worth describing it as an era of diversity. The composition of superficial human resources, such as gender, age, occupation, and education level, is also diverse, and the things that individual human resources pursue and expect through organizational life are also very diverse compared to the past.
In the Department of Labor Relations Human Resource Management, the curriculum is organized with the subject of thinking about how to manage and lead the pool of these various labor force in line with the organization's pursuit.
In addition to the core business administration curriculum, they cross the boundaries of psychology, sociology, economics, anthropology, and philosophy while contemplating the phenomena at the individual, group, and organizational levels, and are contemplating various issues arising from managing human resources as subjects that govern and control their actions and decisions.
Economics is the study of the choices made by economic players such as consumers, producers, and the government in situations where resources are limited. Labor demand occurs because consumers can earn profits from producing and selling desired products, and labor supply occurs because the income earned through work can be used for consumption to obtain utility.
Labor economics studies topics such as producers' labor demand, workers' labor supply, employment and wage decisions in the labor market, compensatory wage gaps, investment in human capital such as education and training, information asymmetry between labor demanders and labor suppliers, discrimination against specific groups, job search and unemployment, understanding trade unions, and the government's role in addressing income inequality and poverty.
In order to properly understand social phenomena and present reasonable alternatives, it is essential to quantitatively evaluate the situation in the labor market using actual data and estimate the effectiveness of economic policies with specific figures. In addition to the theory of labor economics, the educational content of the Department of Labor Economics emphasizes basic methodologies of statistics and econometric data, as well as empirical analysis using cross-sectional data and panel data.
The Department of Labor Economics aims to cultivate labor economy experts who have both in-depth economic thinking and systematic analysis skills. If you are interested in objectively understanding and empirically analyzing labor market phenomena, or if you are working in fields that require economists such as government/relationships and various administrative agencies or media, the Department of Labor Economics may be an appropriate option.