2. Human Rights Violations in the Workplace A. Human Rights Status 2022 A workplace refers to any place where business or sales is conducted, and a workplace is also a miniature “society.” According to data from the Statistics Korea, the number of workers in Korea in 2022 is 21,724,000 (13,568,000 regular workers and 8,156,000 temporary workers), accounting for 42% of the total population (51,558,441, as of Aug. 2022). This shows that a substantial number of Korean people spend considerable time at work. Human rights issues that arise in the workplace are not limited to labor rights issues. There may be problems with other fundamental rights, such as the right to health, personal rights and privacy, from long hours of work, workplace harassment and electronic monitoring at work, etc. Various human rights issues that occur in workplaces require even more special attention for the vulnerable and social minorities. It is desirable that the relationships between workers and employers, between workers and between workers and customers be equal, but many workplaces in Korea are not so, depending on various factors. In such cases, problems such as ‘forced consent’ and ‘blind spots in the system’ will occur. Recently, with a rapid growth of delivery platform, elementary and middle school students were found to be working part-time as delivery workers, with the IDs of their mothers, and the use of child labor has been criticized as problematic by international standards. It was asserted that E-Mart, a large discount store affiliated with Shinsegae, is forcibly implementing overtime, nighttime, and holiday work for its employees. However, it is necessary to look back on whether Korean society was interested in such issues from a human rights perspective. From this perspective, the report will consider the issue of human rights of nurses under COVID-19, a college student’s lawsuit against the labor dispute of university cleaning workers, the night labor problem of distribution center workers, and restrictions on toilet use in the workplace for construction workers, etc. 236