By Ju-min Park GOYANG, South Korea (Reuters) - Five years after the global financial crisis, South Korean construction workers are feeling the pinch more than ever as they shoulder a mountain of debt from a real estate bust that has cast a long shadow on the country's growth prospects. Facing the specter of bankruptcy, some construction firms persuaded their staff to take up loans to mop up ...

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In South Korea, the practice of pressuring employees to buy their own company's products — as a way of boosting sales and manipulating profits — is a fairly common practice.