Aelim YUN
Email : aelimyun@hotmail.com
Aelim Yun is Director of the Institute of Workers’ Rights. She is an Advisory Committee Member at the National Human Rights Commission of Korea, and was a Public Interest Commissioner at the Seoul Regional Labour Relations Commission. She had been a Steering Committee member at the Labour Law Research Network from 2021 to 2025. She was a Visiting Scholar at the International Institute of Labour Studies of the ILO in 2006, and a Guest Researcher at the European Trade Union Institute in 2007. Her research programme centres on precarious employment and workers organizing, for extending labour rights and social protection beyond an employment relationship and corporate boundaries.
Publications (only those published in English)
Aelim Yun (2026). 'A Historic Trade Union Law Revision to Expand the Concept of Employer in Korea', COMPARATIVE LABOR LAW & POLICY JOURNAL [DISPATCH]
Aelim Yun (2026). 'Expanding the Right to Strike to Include Informal and Precarious Workers', in: Jeffrey Vogt , Tonia Novitz and Judy Fudge (eds), The Right to Strike Reimagined, Hart Publishing.
Aelim Yun (2025). 'Labour Rights Advocacy for Expanding Workers' Rights', The Global Labour Rights Reporter 4(2).
Aelim Yun (2025). 'Collective bargaining as a right for all workers?', REVUE de droit comparé du travail et de la sécurité sociale 2025(4).
Aelim Yun (2025). 'A Review of the Labour Provisions in the Free Trade Agreements from the Perspective of the Korean Labour Movement', International Journal of Comparative Labour Law and Industrial Relations 41(2)
Aelim Yun (2025). 'La négociation collective, un droit pour tous les travailleurs en Corée ?', Revue de droit comparé du travail et de la sécurité sociale 2025(1).
Aelim Yun (2022). ‘Transportation workers’ mobilization against the gig economy’, in: Immanuel Ness (ed.), Platform Labour and Global Logistics - A Research Companion, Routledge.
Aelim Yun (2020). Safety for the Public, Rights for the Driver, Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung.
Aelim Yun (2017). 'Realizing workers' rights beyond corporate boundaries in South Korea', in: The Notion of Employer in the Era of Fissured Workplace, Bulletin of Comparative Labour Relations 95, Kluwer Law International.
Aelim Yun (2016). ‘Organizing across a fragmented labour force: Trade union responses to precarious work in Korean auto companies’, in: R. Lambert & A. Herod (eds.), Neoliberal Capitalism and Precarious Work: Ethnographies of Accommodation and Resistance, Edward Elgar.
Aelim Yun (2014). ‘Organizing workers beyond an employment relationship: A case of independent drivers in road freight transport’, in: Sharit K. Bhowmik (ed.), The State of Labour: The Global Financial Crisis and Its Impact, Routledge.
Aelim Yun (2011). ‘Building collective identity: Trade union representation of precarious workers in the South Korean auto companies’, Labour, Capital and Society, Vol. 44, No. 1.