Yes, it's the best that he can hope for given the circumstances. If the court had ordered Hyundai to pay him a certain amount of money for wrongful termination

Yes, it's the best that he can hope for given the circumstances. If the court had ordered Hyundai to pay him a certain amount of money for wrongful termination, Hyundai would have paid him and then continued with the lawsuit to make him pay back even more. They would have dragged on the lawsuit for years to ruin his life. Instead, the court ordered them to continue to employ him until such time as he chose to resign. Which gave him a lot of power to dictate the terms of his resignation. He's close to retirement age anyway (most employees of large corporations in Korea retire between 55 and 60) so in addition to dropping the lawsuit, keeping his pension and other benefits would have been a high priority for him. On the other hand, it takes a great deal of courage and determination for a man to make actual use of such leverage against his employer. Kudos to Mr. Kim for standing firm and asserting his rights not only in his act of whistleblowing but throughout the aftermath!