Karoshi Watch in Asia

Latest News

．The High-Risk Reality of Seafarer Overwork and the Crisis of Offshore Medical Access

(Aug 6, 2025)

．Taxiploitation: Intensified Exploitation and the Collective Resistance of Platform-Based Transport Drivers

(May 20, 2025)

．The pledge of a 4-day workweek, the polarization of the labor market and overwork issue

(May 5, 2025)

KWEA at 2023 ANROEV conference

(MAY 9, 2023)

2023ANROEV_KWEA_Presentation_KR1.pdf

COVID-19’s impact on overwork and karoshi in South Korea

2023ANROEV_KWEA_Presentation_KR2.pdf

Karoshi of delivery workers due to COVID-19 in Korea

COVID-19’s impact on overwork and karoshi in Taiwan.pdf

COVID-19’s impact on overwork and karoshi in Taiwan

karoshi in Japan.pdf

Karoshi in Japan

Work, work, work, die.pdf

Work, work, work, die: app-based driver overwork

Reports

Overwork Deaths and Suicides of South Korea

Karoshi in 2021 Taiwan

Karoshi in 2021 Japan

KWEA at Fall conference of KSOEM

(NOV 14, 2020)

Karoshi and Karojisatsu in South Korea: in the era of COVID-19

Work, Stress, and Health in the era COVID-19 pandemic: Experiences from Taiwan

Karoshi in Japan

Annual Working Hours around the world

In East Asian countries where long working hours are much more pervasive than in western countries; long working hours, heavy workloads and work stress have caused more and more health problems, such as cardiovascular disease, mental disorders and suicides and gained growing concerns in Japan, Korea and Taiwan.

About Us

Karoshi Watch in Asia (KWA) is a non-profit platform for sharing information of the Karoshi /overwork. The KWA precursor Karoshi Watch in East Asia (KWEA)was established in 2020 by a coalition of NGOs, including Korea Institute of Labor Safety and Health (KILSH) from South Korea, Taiwan Occupational Safety and Health Link (Taiwan OSH Link) from Taiwan and POSSE from Japan, and Sedane Labour Resource Centre (LIPS) from Indonesia joined in 2023.