About 80,000 members of the South Korean Confederation of Trade Unions in 13 different cities in South Korea went on strike on Wednesday local time, calling on the nation's government to impose better working conditions for irregular workers and a minimum wage hike, The Straits Times reported.

Lim Yun Suk, the Korea Bureau Chief for Channel News Asia, tweeted that some union workers said, like the characters in the popular Korean survival drama, "they too are struggling to make a living.".

The show hit too close to home for some in South Korea, where "workers work 44.6 h per week on average, higher than the number of average weekly working hours (32.8) in OECD member nations," according to an article published in the International Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health in July 2016.