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There are so many definition of good work but generally job quality can be useful to analyze the good work. Can good work keep employee healthy? Good work may include some factors about health or working environment. This paper was planned to investigate the level of job quality in Korean employees and its distribution by industry and occupation. Especially comparison of health status between low an high job quality ccan be analyzed. Korean Working Conditions Survey was used. Tthe various job characteristics as working conditions were categorized into 6 component of job quality using factor analysis. Statistically mean difference test and cross-tabulation analysis were used to identify the difference of health status and distribution of the level of job quality. The result has shown the different distribution of the level of job quality by the economic sectors and occupations statistically significant. The positive cases of all of six components of job quality was 2.1% of Korean employees and the negative cases of all six components of job quality was 1.5%. Electricity and gas industry and manager occupation have shown the highest proportion of the high job quality. The subjective general health status was correlated with job quality but work-related stress was negatively correlated with the level of job quality. This study was heuristic one, more depth analysis will be needed to identify the relationship and causation of job quality and health status.