SEJONG, Oct. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — The proportion of temporary workers in South Korea fell below 38 percent of all salaried workers in August, data showed Tuesday, as the country gradually returns to pre-pandemic normalcy. Non-regular workers, including part-timers and outsourced laborers, took up 37.5 percent of the country’s 21.72 million salaried workers, compared with [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — College students are boycotting South Korean food and beverage giant SPC Group following the death of a young worker at a bread-making factory. “The death machine that made ‘blood-stained bread’ ends now,” posters that were put up across the Seoul National University campus by a student club said. A [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — Koreans in their 20s and 30s made up more than half of the growth in the number of new employees for the transportation and warehousing sectors, which are often referred to as delivery businesses, over the past five years, a leading business organization said Sunday. The Federation of Korean [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — A boycott of South Korea’s food and beverage giant SPC Group is spreading among consumers after a young worker in her 20s died at a factory affiliated with the group. The 23-year-old employee at the factory affiliated with the group in Pyeongtaek, 65 kilometers south of Seoul, died Saturday [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea plans to seek a structural change in the labor market of its shipbuilding industry, the finance ministry said Wednesday, amid growing criticism over shipbuilders taking advantage of subcontractors. “Recently, the overall conditions for our shipbuilding industry have been improving, with the number of orders rising following the [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — While employment in the manufacturing industry is recovering, there were more recruits from the older generation than the younger generation, data showed Monday. There were 4.53 million people employed in the manufacturing sector in August, up 240,000 from last year, according to Statistics Korea. Sorted by age, the number [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — There are around 15,000 seniors who collect cardboard for a living and they were found to earn far less than the minimum wage, data showed Wednesday. Rep. Kang Sun-woo of the Democratic Party referred to a report from the Korea Labor Force Institute for the Aged, which showed that [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — Three out of 10 South Korean webtoon artists have experienced unfair contracts, a survey showed Wednesday. According to a report that Rep. Yoo Jung-ju of the Democratic Party received from the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, 30.3 percent of 871 surveyed webtoon artists said that they had signed [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — Two out of three South Koreans believe that labor unions should not conduct illegal activities, a poll showed Wednesday. According to a survey conducted by the Korea Enterprises Federation of 1,000 citizens, 67.5 percent of the respondents said that they understand the demands of labor unions, but they should [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — Labor unionists of Samsung Electronics Co. are seeking to file a suit against the tech giant over its “peak wage” policy, sources said Monday. Samsung’s biggest labor union has been seeking participants in the legal action on its website since last Thursday. The union has around 6,000 members, some [...]