ABSTRACT
This chapter analyses the arrangements created in recent years to coordinate different social interests in reforming retirement benefits in Korea.1 The chapter focuses on the influence of organized labour in the emerging corporatist arrangements, established both at the national and company level. The corporatist structures in Korea can be described as either emerging or experimental because they arose in a society still in transition, where a stable infrastructure for neo-corporatism, such as a strong trade union movement, did not exist. This chapter argues that, despite some fundamental limits, the corporatist attempts had important implications in introducing the principle of industrial democracy into Korean labour market policies.
