SEOUL, Feb. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — Jobseekers are flocking to Genesis BBQ Co. amid news that the company had decided to raise its starting salary for university graduates. The company, which runs one of South Korea’s biggest fried chicken franchises, BBQ Chicken, said Tuesday that more than 2,500 jobseekers had applied during the recruitment period [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — More than 2,000 foreign workers will be hired by South Korean shipyards this month in a measure to help resolve an acute workforce shortage, according to the Ministry of Justice and the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy on Sunday. The government issued E-7 and E-9 visas for the [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — Mentions about job transfers and quitting jobs have increased in the last three years over the pandemic, a Seoul-based PR agency said Wednesday. KPR & Associates, Inc. conducted a big data study of 190,000 mentions about job transfers and resignations online, in which 132,000 mentions were made in 2022, [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — Food delivery app owner Woowa Brothers’ decision to bar individuals with criminal records from working as delivery personnel has ignited a controversy. The company recently revised its terms and conditions for apps used by delivery riders, implementing a policy that prohibits individuals with a history of criminal offenses, particularly [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — Kia Corp., South Korea’s second-biggest carmaker, said Monday its unionized workers have accepted the plan to build an electrified purpose-built vehicle plant in South Korea. Kia said it will complete the PBV plant in the Autoland Hwaseong plant by the end of 2024 and start producing mid-sized PBVs from [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — Three out of 10 South Koreans who were hired last year worked less than 36 hours a week, the statistics agency said Sunday. The number of part-time workers totaled 8,028,000 last year, accounting for 28.6 percent of total employment, the highest figure since 1980 when related data began to [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of South Korean employees working fewer than 15 hours a week reached a new high last year, a statistics agency said Thursday. Statistics Korea reported that there were 1,577,000 people working between one and 14 hours per week last year, an increase of 65,000 people from the [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Employees at Kakao Corp., the operator of South Korea’s largest messenger app KakaoTalk, are joining the labor union to protest the company’s recent announcement that all employees should come to the office for work, instead of working from home. The members of the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions Kakao [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — An unexpected boom of voluntary retirement is spreading across the South Korea’s banking industry, which has seen a major surge in profits in the last couple of years. KB Kookmin Bank received some 730 applications for voluntary retirement recently, up by more than 50 applications since January of last [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — Shift workers suffering from sleep deprivation have a far higher chance of suffering from depression than day workers, a study showed Sunday. A research team from the Korean Public Health Association analyzed the answers of 13,191 workers over 19 years of age who participated in the National Health and [...]