South Korea’s full-time gender wage gap was 29.3 per cent in 2023, but a new study puts the conditional gap among recent college graduates at around four per cent.

Among full-time workers, the median gender wage gap was 29.3 per cent in 2023. Among recent college graduates, after accounting for observed differences in education and jobs, one working study puts the gap at around four per cent. South Korea’s gender wage gap among full-time workers stood at 29.3 per cent in 2023, the widest in the OECD. It also tests whether different rates of selection into full-time wage work distort the result. The gap Korea is famous for is not fully present at the moment of labor-market entry.