SEOUL, Nov. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Uplus Corp., a major South Korean mobile carrier, said Thursday it will offer a “non-marriage” grant, similar to the company’s existing “marriage” grant, a first among large companies in the country. According to the company, the non-marriage grant system will take effect from the beginning of next year, [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — People who are highly confident about their life after retirement commonly have more than five channels of income set up for post-retirement life, a survey showed Thursday. A research unit of South Korea’s asset managing giant Mirae Asset Financial Group conducted a survey of 2,000 office workers in their [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — The government has begun to take action to correct Kia Corp.’s “hereditary employment” clause included in the collective agreement. The Ministry of Employment and Labor sent out an official notification that the South Korean automaker’s collective agreement includes an unlawful provision, and that corrective procedures will soon take place. [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Group, South Korea’s top conglomerate, said Wednesday it had donated four blood donation buses built with contributions from executives to the Korean Red Cross. In January, Samsung executives voluntarily donated 10 percent of the bonuses they received in December last year to come up with a donation fund [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s new COVID-19 cases hit almost 60,000 on Thursday, rising from a week earlier, as the looming winter virus wave adds to worries over yet another spike in transmissions. The country reported 59,089 new COVID-19 infections, including 55 from overseas, bringing the total caseload to 26,784,142, the Korea [...]
SEJONG, Nov. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea added 628,000 jobs for wage workers in the second quarter of 2022 amid the recovery of the services and construction sectors amid eased COVID-19 restrictions, data showed Thursday. The number of paid employee jobs came to 20.2 million in the April-June period, up from 19.57 tallied a [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — Self-employed café owners are struggling to deal with increases in the price of raw materials such as milk and coffee beans. The number of coffee shops that were closed in the first half of this year in Seoul stood at 1,239, according to data from the Seoul Metropolitan Government. [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Men and women have different perceptions of potential marriage partners who are well off but reluctant to spend their money, a survey showed Tuesday. Matchmaking firm Bien-Aller conducted a survey of 516 single men and women, in which 52.3 percent of men thought positively of wealthy women reluctant to [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of babies born in South Korea reached yet another record-low level in September, data showed Wednesday, leading to an overall decrease in the country’s population. A total of 21,885 babies were born in September, down 0.1 percent from the previous year, according to the data from Statistics [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s new COVID-19 cases stayed above 70,000 for the second straight day Wednesday, fanning concerns over a new virus wave this winter. The country reported 70,324 new COVID-19 infections, including 69 cases from overseas, bringing the total caseload to 26,725,053, the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA) [...]