SEOUL, Nov. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — Seoul Metro, the operator of subway lines 1-8, said Friday that 27 trains were delayed by more than 20 minutes on the previous day, the second day of a slowdown strike by its unionized workers. With 3,189 subway trains in operation Thursday, their on-time rate stood at 99.1 percent, [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 22 (Korea Bizwire) – Experts at a population strategy forum have called for a fundamental shift in workplace culture, arguing that employees balancing work, caregiving, and personal life should become the new standard in personnel management to address South Korea’s declining birth rate and achieve better work-life integration. The forum, held on November 20 [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 21 (Korea Bizwire) – A new survey has revealed a significant transformation in South Korean teachers’ workplace experiences and perceptions over the past 20 years, with student misconduct and parental complaints now ranking as their primary source of stress, replacing administrative overload as the top concern from two decades ago. The Korean Education Policy [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — Unionized railway workers on Thursday said they will launch an indefinite general strike on Dec. 5 to demand higher pay and a bigger workforce. The walkout plan by the Korean Railway Workers’ Union (KRWU), if implemented, is expected to affect the operations of high-speed KTX and regular train services [...]
CHANGWON, Nov. 21 (Korea Bizwire) – A group of individuals has been charged with orchestrating an elaborate scheme that placed Kenyan marathon runners in illegal employment at seafood farms along South Korea’s southern coast, the Changwon Coast Guard announced on November 19. According to authorities, a 29-year-old marathon runner affiliated with a local sports association has [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — The Ministry of Employment and Labor on Wednesday dismissed claims of workplace harassment against a member of K-pop girl group NewJeans, saying she cannot be regarded as a worker under the labor law. NewJeans fans filed a petition with the labor ministry in mid-September, alleging that Hanni Pham, a [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea added more than 254,000 wageworker jobs in the second quarter of this year, but the number grew at a slower pace, while the number of job openings for young people continued to fall for nearly two years, data showed Wednesday. The number of paid employee jobs came [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — Unionized Seoul subway workers said Tuesday they will go on a full-scale strike on Dec. 6 in demand of increases in wages and new staff hiring. The walkout plan was announced in a news conference by the biggest of the three labor unions of Seoul Metro, the operator of [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 18 (Korea Bizwire) – An individual referred to only as Lee, who began his career as a delivery worker three years ago, says the pressure to meet tight deadlines has become nearly unbearable. “We need to complete at least four deliveries per hour to make ends meet,” said Lee, who acknowledged that running red [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul city government said Monday it will push to hire foreigners as “maeul” bus drivers to cope with a chronic manpower shortage in the transportation sector. Maeul buses, or village buses in English, operate on very short routes within local areas to connect residents to nearby major bus [...]