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Intro -- 20th anniversary of Korea's accession to the OECD -- Table of contents -- Basic statistics of Korea, 2014 -- Executive summary -- Korea is experiencing a spell of slower growth and low inflation -- Figure: Real output growth has slowed -- Productivity is low due to large gaps between manufa...

Figure 11. Korea's banking sector is generally strong -- Raising productivity through innovation and structural reform -- Figure 12. Korea's potential GDP growth has fallen sharply since 1990 -- Table 4. Korea is implementing many previous OECD recommendations -- Figure 13. Service sector productivi...

Expanding opportunities for women to work in the labour force -- Figure 23. Trends in maternity and parental leave -- Table 9. Maternity leave and employment status -- Figure 24. Korea's gender wage gap rises with age and is the largest in the OECD -- Figure 25. Working hours in Korea were long for...

An overview of Korea's productivity performance -- Figure 1.2. Korea's labour productivity remains far below the top half of OECD countries -- Productivity is low in the service sector and in SMEs -- Figure 1.3. Korea's potential GDP growth has fallen sharply since 1990 -- Figure 1.4. Service sector...

Directions for regulatory reform -- Other aspects of framework conditions to promote productivity growth -- Openness to international competition -- Labour market flexibility -- Figure 1.12. Korea's barriers to trade and investment are the second highest in the OECD -- Figure 1.13. Korea's service t...

Figure 1.19. The number of non-viable companies is increasing.