The uniqueness of Korean work attitudes is described with a survey of 1,288 blue-collar and white-collar workers in the 10 largest Korean conglomerate business firms. Compared to the Lincoln-Kalleberg survey results for Japanese and U.S. workers, the Korean survey results indicate that Korean workers harbor a discrepancy between their expectations toward work and their evaluations of their actual situations. Korean workers tend to be more committed to and satisfied with their work but less proud of their jobs and companies than Japanese and U.S. workers. The findings suggest that several factors, including culture, industrialization, labor market conditions, and labor policies, influence work attitude formation.

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This article proposes a research strategy to construct national human rights indicators and indices and uses this strategy for the assessment of human rights observance in the Republic of Korea during the period 1990 to 2007. To ensure reliability, the proposed indicators are derived from the Concluding Observations issued by the committees of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR). The analysis of the constructed composite indices reveals a dramatic trend of a country's human rights improvements and setbacks over time. The article maintains that the proposed strategy is easily replicable by countries seeking to systematically assess and subsequently improve their human rights.

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