SEOUL, Dec. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — As the worldwide shortage of semiconductors is taking a toll on car manufacturing, cargo truck drivers are frustrated over maintenance delays. Choi Su-yeong (alias), a 30-year-old dump truck driver in South Chungcheong Province, hasn’t been able to get his truck fixed since September. “There are already four trucks lined [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — Hundreds of restaurant and other small business owners demonstrated in Seoul on Wednesday, demanding the government scrap the toughed social distancing rules and operating hour curfews that they say would crush their businesses already struggling amid the prolonged pandemic. Some 300 members of the so-called national emergency association of [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — The mismatch between jobs and university majors has a stronger long-term impact on wage loss for university graduates than a general economic downturn, the central bank said Tuesday. The average wage of workers with less than one year of job experience declined by 8.3 percent in 2009, following the [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s new coronavirus cases were below 6,000 for the second day in a row Tuesday, but the number of new critically ill patients exceeded 1,000 again. The country added 5,202 more COVID-19 cases, including 5,144 local infections, bringing the cumulative total to 575,615, the Korea Disease Control and [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — Employee theft is becoming a major issue at e-commerce giant Coupang Inc. A former Coupang employee surnamed Jang was sentenced to three years and 10 months in prison on charges of theft and fraud, and is preparing an appeal, legal sources said Monday. Jang was accused of stealing goods [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — A new study revealed that the act of stalking is highly likely to lead to sexual assault, violence and other violent crimes. Prof. Han Min-kyung from the Korea National Police University conducted a study of 148 decisions in criminal cases at a first instance court that include the term [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — The labor union of South Korea’s biggest carrier Korean Air Lines Co. on Tuesday lodged a complaint against a female YouTuber who appears in underwear in a lookbook video before putting on flight attendant uniforms, alleging that she defamed the reputation of flight attendants. The complaint was filed with [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — Owners of restaurants, cafes and other small businesses plan to hold a rally in Seoul this week to protest the government’s implementation of toughened gathering restrictions and business curfews, according an association of small merchants Tuesday. The so-called national emergency association of small business against COVID-19 said it plans [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — More than half of South Koreans aged between 40 and 64 held debt last year as more people took out loans to buy homes amid skyrocketing housing prices, data showed Tuesday. The data by Statistics Korea showed that 56.5 percent of people in the age group borrowed money from [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of South Korean workers who took time off to take care of their children rose 3.7 percent in 2020 from a year earlier amid more government support for parental leave, government data showed Tuesday. A total of 169,345 workers took parental leave to take care of their [...]