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06 In-depthReportonCampus
Irregular Worker’s
Law on Universities
By LeeKyeong-eun
part-time professors were not on the
major courses, the specific numbers of
list of professors to lecture at HUFS
the closed courses cannot be counted
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for this semester. The reason is that the
since each department takes control of
very August, HUFSans
unintended consequence of the new law
theprofessorsinthatdepartment.
apply for lectures so they can
wouldhaveforcedtheuniversitytoincur
organize their timetables for
great expense to keep these lecturers
WeakSafetyZoneforthePart-
the fall semester. This August, as usual,
employed this semester. The university
timeProfessors
HUFSans went through the same
simply could not afford to keep these
After the implementation of the
process. However, this time, something
lecturersemployed.
law, some part-time professors at the
different happened -- some of lectures
The conditions of firing part-time
universities demonstrated openly, and it
were blank where the names of the
lecturers are the followings: who
caughttheeyesofthecitizens.However,
lecturersshouldhavebeen.Thestudents
lectured more than five hours last
HUFSwasnotinturmoillastsummer.It
did not understand the reason for this,
semester, who has not gotten a Ph.D.,
wasnotbecausethepart-timeprofessors
and chose the lectures anyway. A few
andwhohaslecturedforfourcontinuous
accepted the situation, but because
days later, the following text message
semesters or more. HUFS was not
they cannot appeal to the University
was sent to many of the students: “The
alone in making this painful choice
about their status. According to the
elective course of liberal arts you chose
about letting non-contract lecturers go.
General Student Council (GSC), many
was closed because of a lecturer’s own
This past summer, when the Irregular
of the part-time professors are graduate
circumstances.”
Worker’s Law became effective, there
students from HUFS. In other words,
was controversy at many universities
they are working towards their Ph.D.s
aboutpart-timeprofessors.Forexample,
while they are doing the research and
WhatIsHappening?
The Irregular Worker’s Law, which
an ex-part-time professor of one leading
writing their dissertations. As a result,
struckKoreansocietythispastsummer,
university demonstrated alone, and it
it is understandable why they do not
has hacked the Korean universities this
wasreportedonalargescale.
demonstrateabouttheircontractstatus.
fall.Thenewlawisahotpotato.Itstates
HUFS did not list 124 names of part-
clearly that the part-time workers who
timeprofessorswhoaresubjectedtothe
VoicesofHUFSans
have worked over fifteen hours a week
Irregular Worker’s Law. Five elective
On Aug. 28, a HUFSan wrote on the
for two years should be treated as full-
courses were abolished because the
“HUFS Life,” which is the portal site
time workers. Because this stipulation
courses were not filled with a qualified
forHUFSans,complainingaboutclosed
is in the new law, about one-hundred
lecturer. However, in the case of the
courses. The elective course which this
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