SEJONG, May 21 (Korea Bizwire) — A growing number of job seekers have decided to call it quits, according to Statistics Korea. Recent data shows that the number of unemployed individuals no longer seeking employment stood at 457,700 (as of April this year), an increase of 40,800 from last year. These labor force nonparticipants are [...]
SEOUL, May 21 (Korea Bizwire) — One out of seven college graduates hunting jobs have thought of committing suicide due to extreme stress, a survey showed Sunday. According to the survey conducted by the Seoul National University Boramae Medical Center on 124 college graduates currently searching for jobs, 40 percent said they had experienced symptoms [...]
SEOUL, May 18 (Korea Bizwire) — Women currently working at a domestic company that has more than 100 employees were found to be getting paid 33 percent less in salary compared to their male counterparts. The National Human Rights Commission of Korea announced these results yesterday after surveying 402 permanent male and female employees who [...]
SEOUL, May 18 (Korea Bizwire) — According to the Korea Expressway Corporation, highway roadkill accidents are typically most frequent in May and June. In addition, there were an average of 2,180 cases of roadkill per year between 2013 and 2017. Water deer were affected the most, accounting for a staggering 89 percent of all roadkill [...]
SEOUL, May 18 (Korea Bizwire) — According to a study, one in eight people buy cigarettes on impulse after viewing cigarette advertisements or cigarette packs on display at convenience stores. Moreover, the same study showed that 1.9 percent of non-smokers had purchased cigarettes on impulse. The study, carried out by Prof. Cho Seong-il and his [...]
SEOUL, May 16 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of employees at Samsung Electronics has surpassed 100,000 for the first time in seven years. Experts say this is due to massive hiring efforts in the company’s device solution division spurred on by the boom in the global semiconductor industry. More permanent employees have been hired while [...]
SEOUL, May 16 (Korea Bizwire) – The number of young South Koreans who have positive expectations for the national economy has grown sharply this year, a survey showed Tuesday. Some 48 percent of 313 South Korean regular workers who were born between 1983 and 1994 said the national economy will improve this year, auditing firm [...]
SEOUL, May 15 (Korea Bizwire) – Petitions to the Blue House have been serving as an active communication channel between the public and the highest corridors of power since President Moon Jae-in took office last year. On May 14, the Blue House and National Information Society Agency (NIA) disclosed the big data analysis result of over 160,000 [...]
SEOUL, May 15 (Korea Bizwire) — The divorce rate among married international couples has dropped noticeably in recent years. The Ministry of Justice says that this is due to an educational program that all international couples must go through before getting married. According to figures released by the Ministry of Justice and Statistics Korea, the [...]
SEOUL, May 14 (Korea Bizwire) — A new survey voted Jeju Island as the top place that office workers would like to live in. According to JobKorea, a job searching portal and its subsidiary, Albamon, 22 percent of 1,462 working respondents said that Jeju was the “city of dreams” that they would like to live [...]