SEOUL, Dec. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — While most job seekers think that “Companies should also notify those who failed the interview,” companies feel burdened about it. According to a survey of 498 companies conducted by online job portal Saramin, 61.2 percent of the companies said they felt burdened to notify those who failed their interview. [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — More than 9 out of 10 so-called “working mothers” who work and raise kids at the same time have considered quitting their job. According to an online survey conducted by KB Financial Group, of 2,000 women with children younger than high-school age, 95 percent of working mothers have considered [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — Athletes, teachers and YouTube creators are among the jobs South Korean elementary school students most want to have when they grow up, a survey showed Tuesday. Athlete topped the chart for a second straight year, with 11.6 percent of the surveyed students picking it as their favorite job, according [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s labor force is projected to decline 17 pct by 2040, a report showed Monday, a development that could undermine the potential growth of Asia’s fourth-largest economy. The report of the World Trade Organization (WTO) showed that the decline of South Korea’s labor force would be the highest [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — Foreigners chose ‘free Wi-Fi’ as Seoul’s best policy. According to the Seoul Metropolitan Government’s survey of foreign residents in and out of the country on the city’s top policies from November 19 to 26, free public Wi-Fi across Seoul ranked first on a list of the top 12 policies. [...]
SEJONG, Dec. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — Workers in South Korea hit the highest average annual earnings at the age of 41 in 2016, data showed Monday, with the labor income of the elderly also showing a steady rise. People aged 41 earned the highest average annual labor income of 32.09 million won (US$26,977) in 2016, [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — Electricfied models reached over 40 percent of Hyundai Motor Co. and Kia Motors Corp.’s environmentally friendly vehicle sales in the January-October period, an automobile association said Monday. In the first 10 months, Hyundai and Kia sold a combined 291,237 eco-friendly models in global markets, according to the data from [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — Close to 20 percent of young South Koreans are among the so-called NEETs, a group of people not engaged in education, employment, or training. The National Youth Policy Institute reported that 16.6 percent of young South Koreans between 15 and 29 years of age were unemployed, and not in [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — About one-third of South Korean working mothers with underage children were irregular workers paid lower wages, data showed Friday, underscoring the reality that taking time off to raise children is harming many women’s career prospects. A total of 641,000 female contract workers had kids under 18 as of April [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — A recent study has found that fetuses exposed to ultrafine dust (PM2.5) air pollutants, are more likely to have disabilities after birth. PM2.5 — particles in the air smaller than 2.5 microns in diameter — are Group 1 carcinogens that penetrate into peripheral blood and affect all organs in [...]