Only one in 10 people report workplace bullying... 61% just tolerate it or pretend not to know = South Korea

A survey by a civic group has found that only one in ten South Koreans who experience workplace bullying report it to their company, labor union, or the Ministry of Employment and Labor.
Next month marks the fifth anniversary of the enforcement of the revised Labor Standards Act, which bans workplace bullying. However, the 'power harassment' and inequality in the workplace remain significant.
Workplace Power Harassment 119 revealed on the 23rd that in a survey of 1,000 company employees, only 10.3% of respondents reported being bullied in the workplace.
The Power Harassment 119 organization explained that because it is possible to give multiple responses, the actual percentage of reported victims may be even lower.
When asked how they responded to being bullied in the workplace (multiple answers allowed), the most common answer was "I put up with it or pretended I didn't know" (60.6%), followed by "I quit the company" (23.1%).
) followed. 'I protested individually or with my colleagues' (27.2%), 'I reported it to the company or the labor union' (8.1%), 'I reported it to the Ministry of Employment and Labor, the National Diet, or the Ministry of Labor and Welfare' (2.2%).
The percentage of people who reported through official institutions, such as the Human Rights Commission (2.2%), was low. Overall, only a small number of people answered that they had raised the issue.
More than half (62.8%) of the respondents who reported workplace bullying did not receive appropriate measures such as a change of workplace or paid leave during the investigation.
One case involved a manager who forced him to move to another department because he had reported workplace bullying by contacting Workplace Power Harassment 119 via KakaoTalk.
Yoon Ji-Yeong, a lawyer and representative of Workplace Power Harassment 119, said, "Most victims don't even think about reporting workplace bullying, and if they do, they face retaliation rather than protection.
"We need to strengthen our efforts to improve public opinion and eliminate blind spots," he said. The survey, which was conducted by Global Research, a polling agency, was conducted between the 31st of last month and the 10th of this month among 1,000 company employees nationwide aged 19 or older.
was conducted on humans.