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) — The recent service outage of Kakao Corp. has put a spotlight on seniors sidelined from the digital era, as the inconvenience that the younger generation had to go through for a couple of days is similar to what seniors experience every day. For seniors, Oct. 15-16 were just like [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — While the risk of cancer is rising among Koreans in their 20s and 30s, plans for returning to society after treatment are still lacking, a non-profit organization said Sunday. SWIMPYO surveyed 300 people in their 20s and 30s who had been treated for breast cancer, 90 percent of whom [...]
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) — South Korea’s new COVID-19 cases fell to below 15,000 on Monday, but the daily count recorded a marked rise from the previous week amid concerns over a virus resurgence in the winter. The country reported 14,302 new COVID-19 infections, including 56 from overseas, bringing the total caseload to 25,311,636, [...]
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. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s presidential office made public its new emblem Sunday, more than five months after Yoon Suk-yeol began his term at the Yongsan office in central Seoul. He moved the country’s presidential office to the Yongsan compound from Cheong Wa Dae in a northern part of the capital. The [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Tens of thousands of conservative and progressive activists staged large-scale rallies in downtown Seoul on Saturday, chanting opposing slogans about sensitive political issues. The demonstrations ended without clashes. Right-wing activists, including members of the far-right Liberty Unification Party, held a rally in Gwanghwamun against what they call pro-North Korea [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s new COVID-19 cases stayed below 30,000 for the fifth consecutive day Sunday, but the daily count recorded a sharp hike from the previous week amid rising concerns over a resurgence in infections nationwide in the winter. The country reported 26,256 new COVID-19 infections, including 67 from overseas, [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s new coronavirus cases stayed below 30,000 for a fourth straight day Saturday with the daily death toll down to its 14-week low for a Saturday. The country reported 26,906 new COVID-19 infections, including 48 from overseas, bringing the total caseload to 25,271,078, the Korea Disease Control and [...]