Workers in the field of culture whose employment contracts were terminated due to a business reason and who met retirement conditions were, upon the termination of their employment contracts, in essentially the same position as the workers of all other professions or activities whose employment contracts were terminated for the same reason and also met retirement conditions. The statute that denies workers who meet retirement conditions the right to severance pay regulates the same positions differently without a sound reason existing for such deriving from the nature of the matter. Such statute is therefore inconsistent with the second paragraph of Article 14 of the Constitution.