Toxic employers face jail as South Korea tackles workplace bullying

A recent government survey found that two-thirds of workers had experienced harassment on the job, while 80 percent had witnessed it.

After enduring months of constant harassment at work, South Korean office worker Christine Jung finally confronted her aggressor, only to be fired and sued for defamation by her employer.

Her situation is not unusual in South Korea, where employees have traditionally been expected to turn a blind eye to abusive behaviour by those in power -- a phenomenon so commonplace that locals have coined a word for it, "gabjil". But that could soon change thanks to a revised labour law.