SEOUL, July 17 (Korea Bizwire) — Foreign workers accounted for nearly 50 percent of crew members working in South Korea last year, the oceans ministry said Monday. A total of 60,148 crew members were working on local fishing boats as of end-2022, and 28,281 of them were foreigners, or 47 percent of the total, according [...]
SEOUL, July 17 (Korea Bizwire) — As the paradigm of car use shifts from ownership to service, an increasing number of South Korean firms are embracing car-sharing services to minimize costs. Car-sharing platform operator SOCAR Inc. has established some 4,800 SOCAR zones nationwide and deployed around 20,000 vehicles. This allows companies to utilize these vehicles [...]
SEOUL, July 16 (Korea Bizwire) — Nearly 15 percent of employees in the South Korean construction industry were foreigners in the first quarter of the year amid a shortage of local laborers at construction sites, a report showed Sunday. A total of 110,000 workers of foreign nationality were working at construction sites as of end-March, [...]
SEOUL, July 14 (Korea Bizwire) — The Ministry of Employment and Labor is investigating the recent death of a supermarket worker for possible legal violations. The ministry announced that it is currently investigating the death of a 29-year-old individual who worked at the South Korean unit of U.S. retail giant Costco Wholesale Corp.’s outlet in [...]
SEOUL, July 14 (Korea Bizwire) — Unionized medical workers demanding better working conditions and increased support for public medical institutions ended their two-day general strike Friday, after their walkout caused patient inconvenience and operational disruptions at hospitals across the country. About 45,000 nurses, caregivers and other members of the Korean Health and Medical Workers’ Union [...]
SEOUL, July 13 (Korea Bizwire) — More than half of South Koreans intend to travel despite financial limitations, a travel fare website said Wednesday. Skyscanner conducted a survey of 1,000 Koreans over the age of 18, 54 percent of whom expressed the intention to travel even with financial constraints. Among the respondents, 61 percent stated [...]
SEJONG, July 13 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea reported a net inflow of migrants in 2022, data showed Thursday, following the normalization of global travel amid eased concerns over the COVID-19. The number of international migrants, referring to those who stay in and out of South Korea for 90 days or more, reached 1.12 million [...]
SEOUL, July 12 (Korea Bizwire) — Half of South Korean men are single without having been married before, while 1 in 3 women are also single, data showed Tuesday. According to a report released by Statistics Korea, there were 192,000 marriages in South Korea last year, a drop of 103,000 cases since 1970. The crude [...]
SEOUL, July 12 (Korea Bizwire) — More than two-thirds of single-person households in South Korea pay monthly rent, which accounts for the majority of their expenditures, a survey showed Tuesday. Station3 Inc., the operator of real estate brokerage app Dabang, surveyed 832 app users and found that 45 percent of them were living alone. Of [...]
SEOUL, July 12 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s job additions remained stronger than expected in June on the back of the senior workforce, data showed Wednesday, although the on-year growth slowed for the third consecutive month. The number of employed people came to 28.81 million in June, up around 333,000 from a year earlier, according [...]