SEOUL, March 20 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean public servants from both younger and older generations showed a low preference towards eating lunch with department coworkers on a daily basis. According to a survey conducted by the Korea Institute of Public Administration of 1,021 public officials, those in their 20s and 30s and older generations [...]
SEOUL, March 19 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of working South Koreans aged 60 and above has more than doubled in the past 10 years due to higher living costs amid a global economic slowdown, government data showed Sunday. The number of working Koreans aged 60 and older jumped to 5.77 million in February from [...]
SEOUL, March 18 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s new COVID-19 cases stayed below 10,000 for the third consecutive day Saturday ahead of the lifting of the mask mandate for public transportation. The country reported 9,259 new COVID-19 infections, including 16 cases from overseas, bringing the total caseload to 30,690,223, the Korea Disease Control and Prevention [...]
SEOUL, March 17 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s new COVID-19 cases stayed below 10,000 for the second consecutive day Friday, as the virus curve keeps steady with no dramatic upturn in daily numbers. The country reported 9,065 new COVID-19 infections, including 11 cases from overseas, bringing the total caseload to 30,681,228, the Korea Disease Control [...]
SEOUL, March 17 (Korea Bizwire) — Families of the victims of a fatal Japanese stampede in 2001 visited Seoul on Friday to console the families of the victims of last year’s Itaewon crowd crush. Seiji Shimomura and Kiyoshi Miki, two of the family members of the victims of the Akashi stampede, visited Seoul Plaza in [...]
SEOUL, March 17 (Korea Bizwire) — Controversy surrounding the removal of a memorial banner has shed light on the issue of workplace bullying and classism in South Korean society. The banner, which was hung at an apartment complex in Seoul to commemorate a security guard who took his own life due to workplace abuse, was [...]
SEOUL, March 17 (Korea Bizwire) — With the rapid rise in fuel prices increasing the financial burden on households, low-wage service workers are being hit harder, a survey showed Thursday. The Korean Federation of Service Workers’ Union conducted a survey of 1,506 members with a monthly wage of less than 3 million won (US$2,300). On [...]
SEOUL, March 17 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean job seekers picked the so-called “pressure interview” as the most difficult and disliked job interview type, a survey showed Thursday. Online education service provider Eduwill conducted a survey of 119 job seekers in their 20s and 30s, 56.8 percent of whom picked the pressure interview as the [...]
SEOUL, March 16 (Korea Bizwire) — As the government plans to allow the legal cap on weekly work hours to be raised to 69 hours from 52 hours, the gaming industry, notorious for its “crunch mode” practices, is on alert. “Crunching” is a period of elevated workload where developers work significant overtime to deliver a [...]
SEOUL, March 16 (Korea Bizwire) — A person needs at least 3 billion won (US$2.28 million) in assets to be placed in the upper echelon of the South Korea’s net asset tiers, data showed Wednesday. The net assets of the top 1 percent began at 3.27 billion won last year, an increase of 300 million [...]